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I took a color theory class when I was in college and it’s one of the most memorable of all my coursework.  I recently was cleaning out my basement and came across all my projects for the class. Basically, these projects involved a lot of cutting and pasting of colored squares as we experimented with [...]

As an adult, I have found that I am introduced to much of history through picture books.  Do you know the Sammy Lee story?  Read  Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story by Paula Yoo and illustrated by Dom Lee and you will.  Son to Korean Immigrants, Sammy Lee, would watch children play [...]

Ah, book blogs.  You have got to love them. They add more and more to my reading list every year.  I discovered  The Year My Son and I Were Born: A Story of Down Syndrome, Motherhood, and Self-Discovery by Kathryn Lynard Soper when Melissa at Book Nut called the book amongst other things: remarkable, honest, [...]

I really have to tell the truth here.  When I think about non-fiction for my boys age’s two and four, I get overwhelmed.  How in the world do I navigate all the books out there and find non-fiction books that they will enjoy?  And more importantly, aren’t over their head?  Fiction?  No problem there a [...]

Please forgive my rambling for a bit.  Let me start off by saying that I know NOTHING about baseball.  My only experience with the sport is when I lived in Chicago I went to a Sox game once and when I was in my early twenties I was playing a game of softball (not baseball [...]