I saw the phrase “emotional support pile of books” in a meme the other day and I thought immediately about my own cozy stack. They rest near my side of the bed and I like to think my books and I are all counting the hours each day until we can spend quality time together [...]
I've known one author most of my life and the other all of hers, so when I learned that Julie Olson and her granddaughter Colleen Cline wrote a book, I bought it immediately. I'm so glad I did. "Can She Hear This Cat's Meow?" offers Colleen's reflections on growing up with a grandma (and best [...]
Though it had been there all along, we discovered the most amazing Little Free Library just a few weeks ago on the first day of school. How cool is that? My young friend even selected a book as carefully as time allowed, and opened it right up and began to read as we walked to [...]
Way back in 1977, I wrote a fan letter to a favorite author of mine asking her when the next book in her series would be out. An embarrassingly committed bookworm, I'd plowed through all 14 books in the Beany Malone series and I wanted to know when Lenora Mattingly Weber would be coming out [...]
Some stories are more layered than the number of pages that contain them. Such is the case with this one, in which a 57-year old library book from an obsolete grade school makes its way into my hands in the middle of an Appleton Police Department retirement party. “I’ve been saving this for you,” said [...]