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There was a Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron musical Daddy Long-Legs taken roughly from the book by Jean Webster. I love musicals, and as many as I have seen, I haven’t seen this one from 1955 . I don’t...

My dad’s cousin Helen had horses that her daughters rode in horse shows around the South. They had lots and lots of gorgeous ribbons of every color in their den. I didn’t really want to own a horse because...

Consequences Aren’t Always Punishments So many conversations between parents and children now involve the word consequences. There will be consequences later for that action, behavior, choice. Consequences aren’t always punishments and certainly aren’t always bad. Laura Numeroff wrote two...

Censorship or Not Is it parental censorship if you don’t buy the book? Maybe, but I doubt it. Last year on 4 June 2011, Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote a thoroughly provocative article in the Wall Street Journal about young...

A Good Friend Knows I recently broke three bones including one in my wrist and was so aggravated by the idiocy of the whole situation, I couldn’t believe it. A good friend went into her study and piled three...

Reading through the Ages When I describe myself as a reader, it should probably be “I am a READER.” I read a lot, every day, every week, every month, every year. When I find an author I enjoy, I...

Books, Books, Books I am a reader, a researcher and a writer, pretty much in that order. I read a lot, two or three hundred books a year. I really can’t help it. When I was a kid I...