A Fort Made of Books

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Recommended Ages: 16+ This is the first book in the "Millennium Trilogy," nam...

How did I spend my Christmas vacation? Well, teacher (and fellow classmates), I applied myself energetically to accompanying three Divine Se...

On the fourth day of Christmas, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, in which I sing, came together for an afternoon rehearsal to pr...

I grew up in a home where people said grace before, and sometimes after, every meal. But as I have moved around the country, and visited dif...

The Calder Game by Blue Balliett Recommended Ages: 12+ In this sequel to Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3 , three clever young unconven...

I just woke from an anime dream in which the character I identified with, similar to a house spirit or genius of a place, led a conga-line o...

Either in the week or two before I started this post, or in the weeks after I started it but before I published it, I took in more than a ha...