An Hour A Day

Since my beloved readers seem to like pictures, a few more from my perfect maple sugar outing. As a bonus, we drove by THREE covered bridge...

Discouraged but undefeated, Nicki and I drove north from the first, disappointing sugar camp to the next one on our festival list: the Fox...

Yesterday I set out mid-morning with my friend Nicki to attend the Parke County Maple Sugar Festival. After a drive of half an hour or so ...

When I was a child, my sister and I both loved Virginia Sorenson's children's novel Miracles on Maple Hill , which won the Newbery M...

Today I went with my colleague Martha, who teaches the children's literature course in our English department here at DePauw, to the Ind...

Like many people, I'm subject to envy. But one strange feature of my envy is that typically I envy not people who have achievements for...

My friend Jen told me that the crocuses are beginning to pop up; she reported that one lawn on the street leading over to the darling little...