When I was a kid, my aspirations for my future ran to having a Broadway career. As much as I loved writing and was forever composing poems and such, I was sure my future would be on stage. This may help explain why, at around nine years old, I one day decided out of the...
Popular TV host Art Linkletter, an icon of afternoon TV in the middle of the last century, had a segment on his show in which he interviewed kids on various topics…and the responses they gave ranged from amazing to hilarious. This led to his compiling some of the best of them in a book he...
No, it’s not really a muscle, but the imagination needs to be exercised regularly just as if it were. And your child’s (grandchild’s, godchild’s) imagination needs to grow and thrive even if he/she has no aspirations to be a writer or anything else in the creative field.
“My birthday is in September.” “My birthday was last week.” “My dad is taking me to DisneyWorld for my birthday.” The cacophony of counterpoint voices rose in pitch and volume as each child struggled to be heard above the competing claims. It all started when one girl in the audience eagerly announced, “Today is my...