STL Mom

I've been slowly reading the "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" books by Alexander McCall Smith. I'm reading them slowl...

Having children makes you feel old. My children insist on calling my childhood years "the old days" even though I am quite sure th...

Why am I sitting alone by the Christmas tree? I've moved the kids' bedtimes back since school break began, and let the kids sleep a ...

I almost cancelled our Thanksgiving vacation, because we were all sick. But I thought, "What if we wake up tomorrow and feel better, a...

I'm sure we've all wondered what life was like for a eunuch in 19th century Istanbul. Well, to be honest I hadn't really consid...

My kids are on a Tintin kick these days. They discovered them in the comic book section of our library over the summer. I'm not one of t...

Where have I been, you ask? During my year-long blog hiatus, I have bought a house, sold a house, moved to another state, and I think I hav...

We've read a few fun picture books in the last week or so: The Girl and the Elephant, by Nicole de Cock, begins, "This is the girl...

Ah, the last book. I'm sad that it is over. However, I read the book so quickly, in order to find out what happened, that I am already p...

My son is a train fanatic, and he will read almost anything about trains. However, as the parent who has to read stories over and over and o...

While I grew up reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, they are not books that I kept and re-read over and over. So I was surprised by th...

Who was the biggest newsmaker in the U.S. in 1938? Roosevelt? Hitler? No, it was a racehorse named Seabiscuit . Laura Hillenbrand wrote ...