The timing seemed charmed: my first thorough reading of Diana Wynne Jones’s new manuscript, Enchanted Glass, at the same time as my acquisition of a garden with our new apartment in Brooklyn. The first seemed to somehow communicate and conspire with the second. I’m a huge fan of Diana’s work, so of course I dove straight into this [...]
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The Tchotchkes of Greenwillow
Here at Greenwillow, tchotchkes (pronounced exactly the way you’d think) are very important to us. They remind us of days gone by, of old friends, of running gags. They brighten cloudy March afternoons. Some of them even dance for us. Here is a tribute to our tchotchkes, those venerable little baubles that make an office [...]
The New Kid
When I was very young, one of my favorite things to do was go to the local library with my mom. At that time, the one closest to our house was Wheaton Regional Library, in Wheaton, Maryland. It was a huge, wide open place with high ceilings and a vast children’s section. I would leave [...]
