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Jul

10

2019

The Sad Little Fact book cover

The Sad Little Fact by Jonah Winter
and Pete Oswald

The sad little fact is a blue fuzzy ball with big eyes and spindly arms and legs. He speaks facts. But very few listen to him. Eventually the authorities grow so irritated with him that they throw him into a box and bury him—along with other colorful little facts. The world turns dark from all of the lies being …

Nov

27

2012

On Rivers, Writing, Truth

Maybe it begins here—along the Suamico River in northeastern Wisconsin. Uncle Dale owned about 60 acres of low pastureland along the Suamico, and my grandfather farmed part of it, selling his produce out of the breezeway of his home, though he also sometimes sold his dill and asparagus directly to the local IGA. When I …