Tag: lucy

  • August 23, 2022

    August 23, 2022

    Joan Aiken’s The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a book that I re-read every couple of years. I don’t remember how I discovered it, but I do remember that the first time I read it, I was in seventh grade and I loved it so much that I recommended it to my English teacher—Mrs. Baird.…

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  • February 21, 2019

    February 21, 2019

    One of my favorite Peanuts strips shows Linus carrying a candle and saying, “I have heard that it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.” To which Charlie Brown responds, “That’s true . . . although there will always be those who will disagree with you . . .” The…

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  • March 24, 2015

    March 24, 2015

    I am back from Florida, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia. How was it? To describe it best, I am going to have to borrow some words from Annabeth (in West Chester, Ohio) who wrote me a letter featuring these amazing words: “My favorite part in Edward Tulane, was when Lucy the dog finds Edward at…

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  • March 20, 2014

    March 20, 2014

    My brother Curt and I both loved Charles Schulz’s Peanuts when were kids. We read the strip in the paper every morning and we owned Peanuts books and every week at the library we checked out the gigantic Peanuts Treasury. Peanuts helped us make some sense out of the world and out of each other.…

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  • January 25, 2011

    January 25, 2011

    One of my favorite Peanuts’ cartoon strips shows Linus walking toward Charlie Brown, holding a lighted candle. Charlie Brown says, “What’s this?” Linus answers: “I have heard that it is better to light a single candle than it is to curse the darkness.” And Charlie Brown says, “That’s true, although there will always be those…

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