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  • My Favorite Mother's Day

    She walked slowly across the room, orange juice sloshing onto the tray, in spite of her efforts not to tilt it. A towel flung over one shoulder, he followed close behind, a small dish balanced precariously in one hand. They stopped at the foot of the bed. ''Now, Shell?'' he asked, in a loud stage whisper. ''When I count three,'' she whispered ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Gayle Mattern on May 10, 2009

  • Idleness as a way of parenting.

    I couldn't agree more. I run an award-winning web site for kids, Inkless Tales, at www.inklesstales.com - endorsed by the ALA, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and RIF - heavy hitters - and the site is all designed for learning - but the site is all rigorously tested first. By kids. For fun. My own kids? We have ''do-nothing'' days. Lots ...
    Posted to Family by inklesstales on April 21, 2009

  • London's Rumble Over Religion

    A war, of sorts, has erupted in London, played out with signs on the sides of buses and marching protestors. The first shot across the bow was lobbed by an atheist organization, advertising its point of view with an ad that read, ''There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.'' This created the intended controversy, with ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Gayle Mattern on February 11, 2009

  • In An Unorthodox Move, Grandpa Proves The Existence of Santa

    All the glum economic talk is enough to make us want to fold up our Christmas trees and forget about the holidays. I've been thinking, though, about my grandparents, who lived in a kind of permanent recession, which raising nine kids will do. There was never enough money to go around, needless to say. In the early years they farmed, and later ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Gayle Mattern on December 24, 2008