“Life in the Seven Kingdoms is never dull . . .” –Jen McConnel, School Library Journal

Category: Blog

This Is An Overseas Post

Battered oak with huge gall, blasted branches, lost bark and holes that shelter who knows what.

An Epic Tree

This weekend, my husband and I went looking for a half-circle of oaks he knew from thirty years ago. (No comments from the peanut gallery

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Hero at the Bus Stop

This year, my husband gave me a Page-a-Day calendar to learn Italian. Today’s page was a dialogue between two men at a bus stop, getting

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The Day the Wall Fell

Every year on October 3, Germany celebrates the Tag der Deutschen Einheit, (literally, the “Day of German Unity.”) It’s the day when East and West

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