Reading to your kids is time well spent
Oral storytelling yields emotional, cognitive, and social benefits
World Magazine, February 2022
Meghan Cox Gurdon Illustration by Jonathan Bruns
Meghan Cox Gurdon is a children’s book critic for The Wall Street Journal and a former foreign reporter. She...
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Merry Christmas 2021
December 9 | Posted by mrossol | Food, Interesting, PersonalSo this year I will try a Christmas Card ‘blog post’. (I do have this ‘blog’ that tracks some of what I think.) 20 and 21 – who would have thunk it?! Well, at least in 2021 covid (or perhaps the authorities?) began losing its grip on us and life was not nearly as restricted as 2020.... Read more
Anne L Mason – 1933 – 2018
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | PersonalMarried 64 years (wow). We will miss her. But she was ready for death; her faith in Jesus Christ carried her to the end. ===== Obituary
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The Politicization of Motherhood – WSJ
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Personal, Work worldSort of thought along these lines for a while; just didn’t have any supporting evidence to back me up. ======== James Taranto WSJ 10/28/2017 Motherhood used to be as American as apple pie. Nowadays it can be as antagonistic as American politics. Ask Erica Komisar. Ms. Komisar, 53, is a Jewish psychoanalyst who lives and practices on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. If that... Read more
Your Tote Bag Says Much About You – WSJ
June 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, PersonalSomeone I love is working with tote bags! ========= WSJ 6/13/2017 BY ANNE MARIE CHAKER THE DECISION ON which of the 29 tote bags stashed in your closet to bring on your Saturday afternoon stroll can spark a minor identity crisis. Kyle Chayka, a freelance writer in Brooklyn, N.Y., says he owns somewhere between 12 and 20 tote bags. He favors a... Read more
