How To Be Unexceptional When Almost Everybody Else Is A Superhero
On Thursday Rob Smith found out he was a superhero. Whoopee. How fantastic. I suppose you’re already judging me for not being excited,...
Jan 20, 2024
A Voice Heard in Ramah
Her son is alive and mine is dead. Benjamin tells me all about how her son excels in the yeshiva, and how quick he is to learn the Torah,...
Dec 16, 2023
More Arms Needed
Have you ever tried to change a teleporting baby's diaper? She’d vanish as soon as I got the special transportation-blocking diaper...
Nov 16, 2023
The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
I don’t remember where I heard that Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons” was a good book or how it got on my list. For about...
Nov 1, 2023
Do You Know What Good It Does?
Not being a huge fan of the ocean, my mermaids are never of the singing, starry-eyed fork-collecting type.... “By the late Tidal Era, two...
Oct 18, 2023


Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynn Jones
A friend and I recently attended Bilbo Baggins’ 111th birthday party. That’s right. The Party of Special Magnificence itself! We didn’t...
Sep 29, 2023
The Witness
When she walked down Main Street, no matter who she was with, she looked for three things: the horses tied up at the mercantile to see...
Sep 18, 2023
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms, by Charlie N. Holmberg
Somebody else has written a book about a sentient house! I tend to enjoy sentient houses; it’s the side effects of being both a...
Sep 2, 2023

