5/31/2023 0 Comments Mom heart moments sally clarkson![]() How do you stop being a yelling mom? (a difficult confession).What do you do when you’re so tired you can’t see straight?.I had the chance to meet this experienced mother and ask her several questions-the kind that often kept me awake at night. How I longed to hear from someone older and wiser who could relate to what I was walking through-and also understand how very desperately I desired to do it well. ![]() My reasons? Mostly because I’d heard she was the mother of seven children.Īnd I was incredibly curious to learn how she did it. So I asked Matt (more like begged) if he’d introduce me to his new boss’s wife–a complete stranger I’d never met before. Our young family had recently moved to Nashville, Tennessee for my husband’s new role at a Christian publishing company, and I felt more alone and ill-equipped than ever. You know, being a mother of three children under the age of three at the time? ![]() ![]() So maybe you could imagine how anxious I must have been to make this next bold move. Not that I didn’t have any friends at all.īut what I longed for was more than just another mom-friend- what I wanted was someone a little older, a little wiser (okay, a lot wiser), who could come alongside me.Īnd help me figure some of this mom-stuff out.Īnd kindly hold my hand along the beautiful, challenging, motherhood way. I never expected mom life to be quite so hard. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Hunger games second book![]() Suzanne Collins: Yes, I was flipping through the channels one night between reality television programs and actual footage of the Iraq War, when the idea came to me. An excerpt from that interview, including potential spoilers, is below, condensed and edited for clarity and length.ĭavid Levithan: Let’s start at the origin moment for “The Hunger Games.” You were flipping channels one night. ![]() In a 10th anniversary edition of the book, which hits stores this month, David Levithan, a vice president and publisher at Scholastic Press, interviewed Collins. The books have spawned four record-breaking films and many Katniss Halloween costumes. The series has more than 100 million copies in print worldwide, and spent more than 260 consecutive weeks on The Times best-seller list. ![]() It is the first in a trilogy by the same name that includes “Catching Fire” (2009) and “Mockingjay” (2010). ![]() “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins, came out in 2008. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Beatrix potter tiggy winkle![]() ![]() Potter’s concept was a hard sell - publisher Norman Warne (about to become her fiancé) couldn’t see the appeal but he must’ve conceded he wasn’t a girl himself so Beatrix would know better, and Beatrix won (as she often did).īut Beatrix was wrong about the appeal of Lucie. We live with gender isomorphism, in which there are ‘men’ and ‘failed men’. We don’t live in a gender binary - that suggests two categories which are equal. *Gender binary is not an ideal term, though it’s used widely. ![]() this book will appeal to boys because X this will appeal to girls because Y. She thought that Lucie’s feminine garb, with its emphasis on the lost clothing items (o, calamity!), would appeal to girls especially.Įven today, authors and publishers are creating children’s books for the gender binary* e.g. Tiggy-Winkle specifically to appeal to girls. ![]() ![]() A distinctive, gift-worthy tribute to rebel girls everywhere, this bestselling book is one you can be proud to display in your home. From pirates to artists, warriors, daredevils, scientists, activists, and spies, the accomplishments of these badass women who dared to push boundaries vary as much as the eras and places in which they effected change. From Maya Angelou to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this gorgeously illustrated book celebrates 100 influential women who made history and made their mark on the world by being bad in the best sense of the word: they challenged the status quo and changed the rules. ![]() ![]() Bad Girls Throughout History is an empowering book for girls and women of all ages. Beautiful watercolor portraits and illuminating essays from bestselling author and illustrator Ann Shen bring 100 legendary women to life in this powerful collection that celebrates the influential trailblazers who changed the rules for all who followed. ![]() |