I loved those little bubbles though. I wonder if I can order them on Amazon?

How much you want to bet that Heidi has a locked drawer in their bedroom and that Ted is completely unaware of its contents?

Here’s the segment in question; the kids sound great.

NPR’s “All Things Considered” had a lovely segment yesterday about Cleary that featured an 11 year old girl who, on being told that Cleary was 83 when the girl’s favorite book was written, went into a wonderful hybrid of disbelief and delight. “How ... how .. how could she have written a book when she was so old that…

I used to re-read Fifteen, Jean and Johnny, and The Luckiest Girl when I couldn’t sleep at night. I found her descriptions of homemade dresses and hamburger dates incredibly soothing, and I fantasized about inhaling the scent of oranges through an open window in Shelly’s non-square bedroom. I was SIMILARLY confused by…

Thank you for this lovely article. I stumbled upon “Henry and Beezus” in fifth grade, and didn’t stop reading Beverly Cleary until I had read every last book I could find. I read them over and over.

Oh man, I was a late bloomer but Jean and Johnny saved my life when I was in university. Funny how I could relate so much to a high-school story from the early 60s, but that shit is universal.

I’m so excited for my daughter to read Beverly Cleary and Roald Dahl and Judy Blume and and and (she’s turning 3 in May, is that too soon to start??).

Why does it matter that “no one knows who the father is”? This shit just shows how retrograde America is. This slut-shaming crap is selling tabloids.

hey you can be really smart AND love the real housewives

Watching that collapse reminds me of those old “Wanna get away?” Southwest Airlines commercials, but only if in the commercial the plane crashed killing everyone on board.

It’s even better that it’s not yellow cake.

I hope she took some cheesecake to go, and when she got to her hotel she poured a mug-ful of wine and ate a ton of cake.

This is actually really depressing. We’re finally watching the OJ thing on FX and my first thought seeing her pining for the cake was Marcia Clark and all the abuse she got for her clothes/hair/being a woman. :/

Also VERY worth watching:

Holy shit the voice on that kid in the red voice. It is INSANE. Like...what?!!!! And presence, besides!

Typical self righteous bigot with direct dial to God who talks out of both sides of her ass. “I have so many gay friends! I mean, they’re all gonna burn in hell, but boy do they have great fashion sense. Oh, the LGBT lifestyle, with its throw pillows and cocaine parties and it’s Velvet paintings of Tammy Faye Baker.…

There are some real nut jobs out there.