As a child I enjoyed comic books as well as regular novels. One day while at Girl Scout Brownies, while all the other kids were doing a craft, I found a comic book on a shelf, and soon I was lost in the story of Elfquest. When Brownies was over, I still hadn't done the… Continue reading Graphic Novels
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Drawing Out The Dragons
I picked up this book in the bookstore because I liked the dragon on the front. As I began to read, I discovered that Drawing Out the Dragons was about the personal struggles that James A. Owen went through to become a writer and artist, and the advice he gives to groups of children to… Continue reading Drawing Out The Dragons
Off to School
Every year we mothers face the dreaded first day of school. This year it happened for the last time: yesterday we took our youngest son to college. It was a long, exhausting day divided between the university, his new apartment, the bank, MacDonalds, and a number of stores. That didn't include the 'Welcome to College'… Continue reading Off to School
Carol Nicolas 