fortune cookies book launch party

I know you’re beginning to think we don’t do anything around here but launch books. YOU MIGHT BE RIGHT. Case in point: Fortune Cookies, by A Bitterman (Pete Cowdin), Illustrated by Chris Raschka. How many authors do you know run the register at their own book party? So I run into Judy Hyde, Fearless Leader [...]

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book banning backfire

When Freckles McYoungest was in eighth grade, her Catholic elementary school got a new principal. It was a shame, because the old principal had been there since before Freckles had been born. Mrs. Original Principal had ushered BoyWonder and Bottled Lightning from preschool through their Wonder Years, and we’d hoped she’d shake Freckles’ hand when [...]

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let them go

Okay, all you parents who are easily offended, line up.  You are about to get schooled. There seems to be two types of parents these days.  We’ve got the morons who pay absolutely no attention to their kids, figure their responsibility to their spawn ended the day they plopped them out. I’m not talking to [...]

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i know i said i was going to blog about something else but guess what happened–it’s far more exciting!

So we came downstairs this morning to discover that somebody came by to hang out. On one of our carbon monoxide detectors. In case you are unaware, Missouri is the Cave State.  Which means we are bat-a-trophic.  Our neighborhood and house are sneaking up on 100 years of age.  Bats are quite ingrained in the [...]

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play

The guy who invented this: and this: died last month.  Hans Beck, aged 79. Bow your heads, moms and dads, for a man of brilliance. Boywonder and Bottled Lightning own the above systems and a great many of their accoutrements.  Freckles McYoungest had an American Doll instead.  What a mistake.  I shudder to think of [...]

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