I’m currently reading BEATRIX POTTER’S GARDENING LIFE: THE PLANTS AND PLACES THAT INSPIRED THE CLASSIC CHILDREN’S TALES. In it, author Marta McDowell first outlines the life of “Miss Potter” and then goes through a year of plants and flowers. She illustrates both sections with photographs…
I’m posting this excerpt from SIDESHOW IN THE CENTER RING, my science fiction comedy of bad manners, for the amazing Sara Marian. Sara had a close encounter of the bandage kind with a vegetable grater. Life imitates art. In this scene, Connie, the narrator, is…
Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? Poppa tookded my papers away! I like to sit in the newspaper box. It’s the onliest box I like to sit in. And Poppa tookded it away into the libbing room! Then he wadded up the papers…
