"...many people think boys are a nuisance, but that is because they don't understand them. I do; and I never saw a boy yet whom I could not get on capitally with after I had once found the soft spot in his heart." -Jo (March) Bhaer, Little Men, published 1870 Boys. Louisa May Alcott expressed over and … Continue reading Louisa May Alcott and Boys
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Birds, Naturalists, and Writers
While working outside the other evening, I heard the unmistakable sound of a Bob White. Bob-Bob-White he called over and over. The sound transported me to my childhood in Iowa, where I would answer the bird-call and exult in his calling back to me again and again. Americans have had an obsession with birds since Audubon … Continue reading Birds, Naturalists, and Writers