How do you know if God wants you to take a trip?
Tintin, Snowy the Dog and My Boys’ Childhood
A reading childhood spent with Tintin
Christmas: God on Earth in a Baby; the First Time.
I grew up in a secular family for whom Christmas was an event featuring a holiday scene across the mantlepiece, a tree hauled into the house on my father’s birthday and Coke in the stocking found leaning across the hearth Christmas morning. When we got older, we attended a perfunctory church service on Christmas Eve, joined a big party at…
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Still Looking for Good Books to Give for Christmas?
Great books read in 2013
Gift Giving: Matching the Books with the Reader
Choosing books for gift giving can be tricky. “Oh, look,” my teenage niece said. “Aunt Michelle gave me a book and a movie. What a surprise.” I looked at her and smiled as pleasantly as I could despite my hurt. I had given a lot of thought to what book and movie she would enjoy. Apparently I guessed wrong. I…
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Writing Done by Real People?
Who knew writing could be done by real paper? I was playing on the floor in Bruce Zike’s bedroom when I learned that “real” people wrote for publication. Real people in the sense of the neighbor’s mom getting what I –15 years later–learned was called a “by-line” in a magazine. Tracy ran in waving the magazine for us to admire….
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