Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity. Our paths crossed once, in the 90s, backstage at a talk show, and I was completely tongue-tied and starstruck. RIP Dolly. You were a complete, irreplaceable one-off.
Most people pick watermelons by looking for that yellow spot on the bottom, but that’s actually not the best way to tell if it’s ripe.
This guy shows what the people who harvest them actually look for — and it’s something a lot of us have been ignoring. Way more reliable than just going off the color of the belly.
Do you have any grocery store hacks that turned out to be wrong once you learned the real way?
If you recognize any of these commercials, congratulations. You’ve probably been advised to get a colonoscopy and you have at least one pair of readers.
🚨🇷🇺You’ve got to see this - an Orthodox Christian prayer won a Russian talent show.
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us sinners"
Just listen to them and you will fill him, you will feel God!
Christ is King! https://t.co/r3fld24Cdr
Brian Jacques explains why he does not have sympathetic villains in his Redwall series:
"When I was a boy, morality was taught in school and in church but I think that is no longer true to the extent that it used to be. I try to create very clear moral signposts of what is right and what is wrong. The children who read my books are generally at an age where they need to have things spelled out in 'black and white,' without ambiguity. I often tell my readers that my baddies are bad and my goodies are good. I won't have sympathetic baddies and schizophrenic goodies in my books."
Should more writers do this?