Heat has it all: Baseball at Yankee Stadium–the dream of Little Leaguers who practice within sight of it; Michael and Carlos, determined to keep “Official People” from finding out why Papi isn’t home…
“Several Blackfeet women and with a boy were picking saskatoon berries when a grizzly bear surprised them. The women dropped their berry bags and ran. The boy tried to fit an arrow into his bow…
The Trapp Family Singers [Sound of Music!] had some difficulty connecting with American audiences. Their manager said, “There is something you are lacking.” Then came the fly.
Anyone who has enjoyed The Sound of Music is likely to enjoy the true story of the Trapp Family as told by Maria herself in The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.
The best way of travel…, if you aren’t going in any hurry at all, if you don’t care where you are going, if you don’t like to use your legs, if you want to see everything quite clearly, if you don’t want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon…
John Magee began composing the poem “High Flight” while flying a Spitfire 30,000 feet over England in 1941… While World War II dragged on, John’s poem gave war-weary civilians, soldiers and pilots, words that inspired hope and courage.
errorism is fear all around you. It is going to sleep at night and not knowing what horrors the next day will bring. It is huddling with your family in the center-most room in your home because you have all decided it is the safest place.
I was five years old. Back then, I did not fully understand what my father had done, or why it was so important.
David McCullough quotes Miriam Rothschild who quotes Karl Jordan who may be the epitome of curiosity. “I shall know it all in the next world.”
Colin collects facts the way you might collect stamps or baseball cards, and because he’s curious about the ways other people behave, he finds out who shot off the gun at a birthday party.
Henry wants a bicycle. I have heard the answer from Henry’s parents myself, and as a parent I’ve had to tell our children the same: “I wish you [had one] too…but with prices and taxes going up all the time, I’m afraid we can’t give you one this year.”
at the klan meeting last night the dragons talked about lighting you and your daddy up to get them some warmth on a cold day