The Extraordinary Ordinary
“Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.” –G.K. Chesteron This was the quote we chose as the banner for our “trip around the world” site, which we called...
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This is what “almost” looks like. Maybe in a day or so, I’ll be eating our first tomato. I didn’t post a picture of my first tomato while it was still on the plant. I didn’t even really mean to pick...
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I really don’t like getting messy. My cousin's daughter, decorating Christmas cookies. Unlike my cousin’s daughter, I hardly touched the cake served to me when I turned a year old. What, no fork? Too...
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If someone were to look at the google search activity on my computer, they might be puzzled. Banana sticker images? Leila’s hair museum? A video uploaded to YouTube on December 20, 2010 about Marilu...
View ArticleSomething New
I was recently struck by a line in the book I Am a Pencil, written by Sam Swope. The book is Sam’s story of going into a third grade class and teaching creative writing. In one portion, the classroom...
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