Every child knows that certain adults are enemies of wonder. These adults are not just scornful of fantasy. They are determined predators of it. They may not actually rip a comic book or a DVD out of that child’s hands, but they will let that child know that such pursuits are garbage, and that taking […]
“Despite what we’re so frequently shown in movies, not all of life’s worst news arrives on a dark and stormy night, with thunder and lightning for company. Some terrible news arrives on glorious summer days, sometimes even in the well-lit kitchens of Fluorescent Salmon houses. For instance, outside the home of the What family, the […]
Two or three times in my life I have been wandering the bookstore when I just randomly came across some child, holding one of my books, and begging his mother to buy it; and the mother telling the child no, either because she wasn’t in the mood to buy something for him right now, or […]
