BeTwinned

[Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered]

  • Lemon be the one

    Like everybody, we love to listen to music in the car. Two of our favorite story CDs are Seal Maiden and Gift of the Tortoise. Both are excellent CDs, very musical, with captivating stories full of powerful images that fire up Dinah’s and Djuna’s imaginations. We listen to great music, too. We love Dan Zanes’…

  • Thoughts on clowns

    We had mixed feelings about it, but last night we went with some friends to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at the Staples Center to see their new show “Over the Top.” Mainly, I was concerned about giving my daughters a lifetime of nightmares from the clowns, which I found creepy and…

  • Done with chemo and hankering for a new pair of shoes (Is that odd?)

    Yesterday was the last of eight rounds of chemotherapy. It really feels great to be done, but I am a little nervous because now there is no more “medicine” for me — that’s in quotation marks because chemotherapy is the medicine to help me get better from breast cancer, sure, but it is so toxic…

  • I have cancer. WTF?

    My birthday comes at the end of January, and, now that I am a little over 40, it’s also the time when I’ve decided to have my annual mammogram. I had my first one last year. This January I was very, very anxious about my health. I have been having some gastric issues for a…

  • The Cheese, by Margie Palatini, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher

    Photo from Amazon.com Review by Sandra Horning My five year old pulled The Cheese off the new book display at our library a few weeks ago and I’ve read it for bedtime every night since. Clearly, my five year old thinks it is great. The Cheese builds around the last line of the song “The…

  • Mokie and Bik, by Wendy Orr, illustrated by Jonathan Bean

    Photo from Amazon.com Review by Sandra Horning Mokie and Bik is a lively tale of energetic young twins living on a docked boat. Their mother is an artist who is always out “arting” and their father works on a ship at sea, which means most of the time their nanny, Ruby, looks after them. The…