Commonplace Book
People once kept commonplace books — personal, portable anthologies of favorite quotations. Today, the “Favorite Quotations” section on Facebook offers a brief, public version of the commonplace book....
View ArticleCommonplace Book: Children’s Literature
The responses to yesterday’s “Commonplace Book” post prompts me to list here ten favorite lines from children’s literature. (And please see yesterday’s post for quotations from Crockett Johnson and...
View ArticleCommonplace Book: Children’s Literature, Part II
Oh, I could do this all day. Except that, well, I couldn’t — too many other things to do. So, here are ten more. And then I’ll stop. For now. “Welcome!” he said. “Welcome to a new year at...
View ArticleSendak on Sendak
It looks like the collected works of Maurice Sendak have exploded all over my office… because I’ve just finished a draft of an article on Sendak — one of many pieces I agreed to write this summer (and...
View ArticleOh, the Quotations You’ll Forge!
Every March 2nd, Americans celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Ted Geisel) by reading his work… and by sharing words he neither wrote nor said. I understand why. Seuss could be pithy. He’s far...
View ArticleCommonplace Book: Children’s Literature, Part III
Children’s literature distills experience into concise, often pithy nuggets of wisdom. When you happen upon one such pearl, it often feels as if — for just that moment — the author (and not the...
View ArticleCommonplace Book, Too
From time to time, I post quotations that strike me as interesting — my blog version of the Commonplace Book, a tradition dating to the sixteenth century, in which (if I may quote the OED) “one records...
View ArticleLaurie Anderson & Lou Reed’s Rules to Live By
I collect quotations — the epigrammatic, the wise, the thoughtful. Sometimes, I post these in my “Commonplace Book” entries. Here’s another for the commonplace book, offered by Laurie Anderson on the...
View ArticleCommonplace Book, Also
Welcome to the sixth aggregation of quotations that interest me — that is, the sixth blog installment of my “commonplace book,” a sixteenth-century tradition (that continued for several centuries), in...
View ArticleCommonplace Book
People once kept commonplace books – personal, portable anthologies of favorite quotations. Today, the “Favorite Quotations” section on Facebook offers a brief, public version of the commonplace...
View ArticleCommonplace Book: Children’s Literature
The responses to yesterday’s “Commonplace Book” post prompts me to list here ten favorite lines from children’s literature. (And please see yesterday’s post for quotations from Crockett Johnson and...
View ArticleCommonplace Book: Children’s Literature, Part II
Oh, I could do this all day. Except that, well, I couldn’t – too many other things to do. So, here are ten more. And then I’ll stop. For now. “Welcome!” he said. “Welcome to a new year at...
View ArticleSendak on Sendak
It looks like the collected works of Maurice Sendak have exploded all over my office… because I’ve just finished a draft of an article on Sendak – one of many pieces I agreed to write this summer...
View ArticleOh, the Quotations You’ll Forge!
Every March 2nd, Americans celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Ted Geisel) by reading his work… and by sharing words he neither wrote nor said. I understand why. Seuss could be pithy. He’s far...
View ArticleCommonplace Book: Children’s Literature, Part III
Children’s literature distills experience into concise, often pithy nuggets of wisdom. When you happen upon one such pearl, it often feels as if –Â for just that moment –Â the author (and not the...
View ArticleCommonplace Book, Too
From time to time, I post quotations that strike me as interesting – my blog version of the Commonplace Book, a tradition dating to the sixteenth century, in which (if I may quote the OED) “one...
View ArticleLaurie Anderson & Lou Reed’s Rules to Live By
I collect quotations – the epigrammatic, the wise, the thoughtful. Sometimes, I post these in my “Commonplace Book” entries. Here’s another for the commonplace book, offered by Laurie Anderson on...
View ArticleCommonplace Book, Also
Welcome to the sixth aggregation of quotations that interest me – that is, the sixth blog installment of my “commonplace book,” a sixteenth-century tradition (that continued for several...
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