Shannon Costello

For me it was a wildly unusual juxtaposition of wealth and poverty, of color, of nature and civilization, of language, of political views, and well, it seems just about anything.  And yet I bet there were more similarities than differences.

The adults in our small group recently decided that the children should have a little class of their own, instead of playing the entire time.  Last time we met we brought them upstairs to break the news to them.  There was a certain amount of reluctance on their part to leave their games and join [...]

1)  Two fully weeks of school = two full weeks of forgetting to take out the trash.  I’m afraid to look in the trash can to see what might be growing in there.  Maybe we should barricade the door to the garage just in case.
2)  There is, at this very moment, a LIVE giant cricket [...]

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties!
Here is a black spot for all of ye :

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Today thoughts of dying leaves, cold, late sunrises and early sunsets leave me feeling depressed.

I think it was a teen cricket in my bathroom early this morning- big enough to be intimidating, but obviously not full-grown.  I was, er, busy, so my range was restricted, but I did wad up an article of clothing and threw it at him as hard as I could- stunned him on the second [...]

I’m not a fan of the idea of Jane Austen spin-off fiction, and Austenland isn’t delightful like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, but it was still an entertaining book.  I know about Shannon Hale because she is yet another famous “young adult” fiction writer who graduated from BYU. I wonder what they [...]