May 15, 2013
Today is the anniversary of L’s birth. Happy birthday, L. Not a lot of folks nowadays know that your mother-in-law, Matilda Gage, was one of the 3 pillars of the 19th century feminist movement along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. As you probably remember, your wife’s name was Maud. Maud and Matilda, […]
October 27, 2012
But the tree next to the lunch-box tree was even more wonderful, for it bore quantities of tin dinner pails, which were so full and heavy that the stout branches bent underneath their weight. Why this sentence from Ozma of Oz? Simply because of the gifted storyteller’s use of the word ‘for’. He loved ‘for’ […]
August 17, 2011
L. Frank Baum: a. wrote all of his Oz books with a pencil dipped in honey. b. wrote all of his Oz books blindfolded and balanced on a high wire. c. wrote all of his Oz books in a combination of Sanskrit and Inuit before working them out in Spanish, Finnish and finally, English. d. […]