Tag: wedding
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December 26, 2012
I wrote The Tale of Despereaux because my best friend’s son asked me for the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears. He was eight years old when he made that request. And now, twelve years later, I am packing a suitcase to attend that boy’s wedding. The words that I have going…
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October 4, 2011
“Mrs. Coolidge in Tom Thumb Wedding” Those are the words written underneath the photo of my mother (on the left) and (the unidentified) Tom Thumb bride and groom. But who in the world is Mrs. Coolidge? And what was her role in a Tom Thumb wedding? My mother is gone. I can’t ask her. I…