and left the doll with the Park Director, Stu Bruner, to do with what he wished, gift it to one of the children who played there. Gerrie explained simply to Mr. Bruner that her daughter outgrew the male doll and had moved on…Gerrie felt a little ‘white lie’ would not hurt any...
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder. After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New...
The sins of the mother are visited upon the children The Echoes is many things in Evie Wyld’s new novel. It is the rural backwater in Australia where Hannah grew up, and it is also the shape of the book, as the past reverberates down the generations. Philip Larkin said that man han...
Jacquline Woodson has a vast catalog of work, ranging from children's books to poetry to middle grade, young adult, and adult novels. In 2018, Woodson was appointed the sixth NationalAmbassadorfor Young People's Literature, and in 2020 she was selected as a MacArthur's Fellow. Here, she c...
If Lindsay’s like was full of children and lovers and friends at the time, it was also full of alcohol. What she couldn’t silence with the noise and energy of the people around her she could try to numb with drink. Perhaps a clue to the demons she was struggling with can be found...
the men-children Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church play inSidewaysare seemingly complete opposites but in actuality are emotionally-stunted, damaged souls using oblivion, alcohol, and sex to medicate their pain and avoid reality. The beauty of the California and Hawaii locales work as contrast ...
Their mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen had become a widow in 1870 after her first husband, Herbert Duckworth, died of a burst abscess. She already had three children: George, Stella, and Gerald. The latter was born shortly after Herbert’s death in 1870. ...
In 2014, she also presented at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content in Singapore and Reading for the Love of it in Toronto (2015). She is an Ontario Certified Teacher and has taught visual arts, drama, and creative writing in Toronto for 25 years. She is also a tdsbCREATES mentor...
I was born and lived most of my life in a small town known as Tomahawk, Wisconsin. Currently I live in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Fiona: A little about your self (ie, your education, family life, etc.). My wife and I have been married for 42 years. I have 2 adult children. No grandch...
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