New review: A Strange Place to Call Home

New review today! Check out the Brain Burps About Books podcast to hear all about how the first time I read A Strange Place to Call Home by Marilyn Singer and Ed Young, I had no idea what to do with it. And then how I looked at how much Henry was loving it, just...

Nibblers

Every summer day brings out more animal in the children. Seriously, I know dogs who are more sophisticated than this.

Get those Disney bandaids out of my house.

I’ve never bought any of those “character” bandaids, but just kept regular tan ones in the house, to try to keep my kids from being the kind who become obsessed with plastering themselves with expensive bandages to cover microscopic cuts. But four...