Today you lovely people get to benefit from my 1) need to provide the newest arrivals in my family with quality children’s literature, 2) hatred for gift registries, and 3) understanding of the panic that occurs when tiny babies do not want to go to sleep. My go-to gift for any occasion is a book. Or many books. I figure you, my fellow Cannonballers, have a similar notion that there is, somewhere in the universe, a perfect book to give as a gift for almost […]
Q: What’s the Matter with Kids Today?
A: Nothing, really. I picked up this book on Netgalley because, as a former Kindergarten teacher, I’m well aware of Alfie Kohn and his research into areas of child development, and I’m also incredibly interested in the topic, in this whole idea that children can be ‘spoiled’. The book was fascinating and had some great in-depth analysis of lots of studies surrounding how children grow, different styles of parenting, how those styles are perceived, and how they impact children over the long-term. Really, there was […]
Seriously: F-you, F-stops.
According to Amazon, I have owned this book for five years. I have read it approximately twice a year since I’ve owned it, so let’s say 10 times. Do I “understand exposure” yet? No: no I do not. So this is a horrible book, right? No: It’s actually excellent, but for whatever reason, I just can’t get the information to translate from the pages of the book to my brain to my camera lens. In all honesty, my statement about not understanding exposure yet is […]
Cringeworthy Media
I don’t read a lot of (traditionally published, anyways) short stories – I tend to like my fiction long-form, give plots a chance to percolate, characters a chance to truly develop. It’s probably more to do with the way I write – never say in three sentences what you could meander on about for three pages – but I’ve always been sort of baffled by writers who could condense their writing into these bite-sized little chunks. The thing about about not particularly searching out short […]