Over the Crescent Moon

For Halloween this year, Blaze decided that he wanted to be Peter Pan's shadow. The only things that we had to buy for the costume were ...

Every Year at Christmas time, I real aloud Christmas in Noisy Village , by Astrid Lindgren (the author of the Pippi Longstocking books). It...

DH and I have been collaborating on ornaments that look like some of our favorite books. He creates wonderful book covers on the computer ...

Last week, we finished reading By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman, a comical novel about a boy and his butler who run away to the go...

When Ula and I had been discussing the latest chapter of the airship pirate story that she had written for Blaze, we had talked about how th...

Since we spent yesterday loading up the car with the last of belongings in Gainesville and moving them to Tallahassee, we did not begin our ...

Ula e-mailed a new installment of the adventures of Neriena Wordsmith, Blaze, and the rest of the crew of the "Aeolus" to me toda...

Maurice Sendak passed away this morning. This is a great loss to children's literature, art, and creativity. I did not have any Maurice ...

On Monday, I began reading The Wrath of Fate , by "Captain" Robert Brown, aloud to Blaze as a bedtime story (there is a little adu...

The second issue of Steam Powered Teen is now available to be purchased HERE . This is a beautifully done, full color, steampunk magazine pu...

We finished reading The Son of Neptune, by Rick Roirdan, yesterday afternoon. This was the second book in the Heroes of Olympus series. Blaz...

The birthday of Sherlock Holmes is celebrated on Jan. 6th, but yesterday was a school day, plus I awoke with a terrible sinus headache, so w...

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place. ~The Wind in the Willow~ I have had tea on my mind for...