Last night, my youngest daughter came to me frustrated by something she was trying to draw. Irritated, she handed me the blue pen and the paper she had been working with. “fix it.” She cried. ” It isn’t working.” She had toiled with it past the point of polite requests or wanting an art lesson. She just wanted a magic… Read More
Finding Friends
The very first friend I ever remember having was a charming girl named Melissa in first grade. She had bright blue eyes and yellow hair cut in a chin length bob that bounced and swung when she moved her head. Her laugh was more of a giggle and she found everything to be the funniest thing she had ever heard…. Read More
Having Faith
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. -Robert Benchley It’s a good thing that Robert didn’t find out earlier. What a different world it might have been. Robert Benchley sold his first piece of paid writing in 1914 and his… Read More