I recently spoke with the gifted teacher at E's school. Our city's gifted program doesn't begin until second grade, but I was c...

There must be something about July 10th... Nikola Tesla, Charles Darwin, and Abraham Lincoln were all born on this day and today is also the...

Here is another of my favorite board books: Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field. This classic Caldecott Award winner is a beautifully illust...

This picture didn't turn out nearly as cool as I had envisioned. The baby kept crawling away - how's that for irony? Littlest Page h...

It's pushing 90 degrees outside and all I want is to cool down with a nice glass of lemonade. Miss Dawn at our Barnes and Noble storytim...

It's a beautiful day here in Virginia! The skies are blue, there's a nice cool breeze, and the air is not humid. A rare day, to be ...

It's one of those humid, heavy days with low clouds that promise a cooling rain but never deliver. In a random act of kindness, our neig...