A friend of mine recently related that she had been stopped cold one day when her four-year-old daughter declared, “Girls can’t be heroes. Only boys can.” This shocked young mama promptly sewed her daughter a cape and held a Hero …
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Women’s History Month…baby, we’ve done a lot for the world!
March is Women’s History Month. I’m hoping to share some weekly lists on this subject all month long…we’ll see how time allows. There are gobs of biographies already in the Orange Marmalade archives, so if you’re looking for ideas to …
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humor, poignancy, and lumberjacks
My Near-Death Adventures (99% True) by Alison DeCamp pubished in 2015 by Crown Books for Young Readers Here is a book that made me laugh out loud one minute, then swung about and deftly delivered heartache the next. It’s a …
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