While there are introductions to each section of the book, you cannot really read Born to Dance: Celebrating the Wonder of Childhood. This is a coffee table book for kids who love to dance. Not like, love. Also, if you have a gymnastic in your family, this could work as well. The positions some of these people get into, I do not think the Karma Sutra has invented yet! Seriously though, there is a lot going on. Jordan Matter’s photographs are delightful. You see the […]
Unfortunately timed (although appropriately titled) memoir
I listened to the audio version of Unqualified by Anna Faris and the whole time I kept thinking how awkward it must have been for Anna to have this memoir come out about two months after she announced her divorce to Chris Pratt. There is some hasty editing that alludes to the past tense of their relationship but there are a few essays that probably needed a second look; hell she dedicated the book to Pratt alone (when they have a kid together) and while he wrote […]
Such a lovely surprise on a cold and snowy day
Last Saturday, I woke up feeling a bit out of sorts. By the afternoon, it became clear why – I was coming down with a doozy of a cold. By Sunday, I was feeling pretty wretched, my head was fuzzy, my throat was sore, my nose was constantly dripping and I felt completely wrung out. Sadly, I could not just call in sick and stay in bed fighting this thing – the end of term English test for my students was on Monday and Tuesday […]
Welcome to the modern world
I was in the sixth grade when the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. I was a little too young to be fully aware of Waco, Ruby Ridge, or the first World Trade Center attack, and, as an army brat, while the first Gulf War affected my family personally, I only really saw it as something that might take my father from me. So the 1995 terrorist attack was the first real event that captured my interest – and not least […]