“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, air, and you.” –Langston Hughes We all need rain and humor these days! Now that we are past the big week of summer, maybe the roads will become a bit easier to travel, the lines a bit shorter. I don’t know, though, […]
Margaret Wise Brown, the “laureate of the nursery,” was born on May 23, 1910, in Brooklyn, N.Y. She wrote more than 100 children’s books, under her name and the pseudonym “Golden MacDonald.” She’s most well-known for “Good Night Moon” and “The Runaway Bunny,” but I particularly like this quote from “The Little Island”: “Nights and […]