In which I write up a Transcendentalist children’s fantasy novel. For real!
“Footprintz in the Sands of Time”
August 1, 2012 By
“Resilience and Sensitivity”
July 18, 2012 By
“The Beasts and Children”
July 14, 2012 By
This article about “Brave” takes a while to get going
July 14, 2012 By
but is worth skimming until it starts to get good. “If it weren’t already obvious, this isn’t a film that fetishizes courage in its ordinary sense.” And this: The paradoxical “changeable fate” is probably a familiar fantasy to most parents. That it stumped me for as long as it did I attribute partly my lack [...]
“I Refuse to Let Child Abuse Define Me”
July 5, 2012 By
Also, apparently his eyes fire lasers. Like a shark, you know?
June 29, 2012 By
John Cheese is a writer for Cracked whom I have praised to you people many times. I linked to this piece in my AmCon piece about the problems with the “divorce counterrevolution” and I’ve linked several of his other marriage/parenting/family/uh… other stuff-related articles at MarriageDebate (which by the way you should all be following). Plus [...]
Also yes, “The Bear and the Bow” would have been a better title
June 27, 2012 By
since the theme of Brave, which I saw last night, isn’t actually bravery at all. The Good: It’s so pretty! It’s a gloriously pretty movie, and the grisaille scene where the girl and her horse wander through a fog-hung, thorn-infested woods was chillingly beautiful. The visual humor is also adorable, and visual language is used [...]
You’ll Never Walk Alone: A post on Dawn Eden’s new book
June 18, 2012 By
“The Spell of the Satirist’s Skill”
June 12, 2012 By
my children’s-book column for Acculturated: I don’t know why anyone would ever want to rule a fantasy kingdom, or become an evil wizard, when you have to deal with countless irksome children giving you backchat. It seems that almost every kids’ fantasy written nowadays has a “spunky” hero or heroine: kids who speak their mind [...]
The Lightning-Rod Salesman
June 7, 2012 By
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