Okay, I should never have said that thing about how the next thing I blog is going to be the girl superhero post. All it’s doing is preventing me from blogging anything at all. When in fact, I have some mighty complaints, like, for example, why in the name of all that is reasonable is… Read more »
Maurice Sendak
For Sendak Fans
Sendak fans, get to the google search page by the end of the day and press play on Max to see the animation in honor of what would have been Sendak’s 85th birthday. Beautiful. Important ETA 6/11/13: So, it turns out that Google has an archive of their doodles (of course), so you can always… Read more »
So Much Sadness
I have so much sadness today at the news of the death of Maurice Sendak. I am crying at my airport gate. So much sympathy for his loved ones, and so much gratitude for all his work gave me – more than I can possibly express in this moment. The world has lost an irreplaceable… Read more »
“I don’t believe in an afterlife, but I still fully expect to see my brother again”
Last Christmas, at my parents’ house, my nieces (who were about 16 months old at the time) kept telling us that they wanted to be read to, but every time their mother, codename: Cordelia, began a new book, they would get distracted, wander around, then come back a few minutes later with another book, asking… Read more »