You wouldn’t know it from reading my blog but I used to pick up the occasional motivational book. Step Back from the Baggage Claim: Change the World, Start at the Airport by Jason Barger has taken me back to a genre that I have regretfully left behind. I have found that it’s nice to pick [...]
What is it like to experience colors if you are blind? This is the question that The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin and Rosana Faria asks and attempts to answer. This book of colors is lacking in the color department and that’s a good thing. Instead, it is completely black with white text [...]
Of all the books about the holocaust that I’ve read, I’m not sure if I’d actually recommend I Am a Star, Child of the Holocaust by Inge Auerbacher. Which to my knowledge might be the first time I’ve not raved about a book dealing with the Holocaust. I don’t want to discount Auerbacher’s story. No, [...]
Can anybody tell me the gestation period of an elephant? No? Let me share. An elephant is pregnant for about 22 months! That’s almost two years people! Can you imagine being pregnant for two years?! Thanks, but no thanks.
My boys and I have been excited ALL summer (photo on the left is my baby about [...]
Zlata’s Diary, A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic has often been compared to the Diary of Anne Frank and it’s a comparison that’s not lost on Zlata herself as she often noted in her diary that she hoped that her ending would be different from that of Anne’s. Fortunately, her ending was different. [...]
