I have a couple of friends who are soon to move away, several friends who have recently passed away, and a couple of friends who are soon to pass away. It makes me kind of sad, although none of them will ever be completely absent…
Category: Throwback Thursday
When I was little, I checked Andrew Lang‘s Rainbow Fairy Books. Andrew Lang, in case you aren’t familiar with this wonderful collection, was a Scottish anthropologist, historian, writer, and collector of folk and fairy tales. I told myself that, when I was big, I would…
Ideally, a good parental joke should be so short, you can get most of it out before the kids have time to recognize it and shout you down or stick their fingers in their ears and go la la la la la. Failing that, it…