From Phinney Books, the local bookstore for Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood: Saturday, on April 16 at 3 pm, we’ll be welcoming emissaries from our neighbors to the north at the Bureau of Fearless Ideas, the award-winning writing center: kid and grownups will read from their contributions to the new Encyclopedia Greenwoodia, a timeless celebration of our …
This is a note thanks to a complete stranger, a parent who recently did something unexpected and wonderful right in front of me. She’s probably forgotten the incident but I’ll remember it for a long time, and I hope lots of other moms and dads around the country are on the same page with her …
My daughter’s last year of co-op preschool just came to end, but we parents weren’t let off the hook without attending one final evening meeting. We do this regularly in late spring, gathering to talk school business, elect board members for the coming year, and listen to an expert give us advice about child-rearing. This …
This Tuesday, April 23, is World Book Night. World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person. Each year on April 23, tens of thousands of people in the US go out into their communities and give a total of half a million free World Book Night …
