A journey into the mind of A-Fed. What A Difference a Year Makes. On January 26, 2014. On November 4, 2012.

A Somewhat Birder and a Writer. Exciting news here at Birds and Words. This blog is moving to an exciting new home. Lots of fabulous bird writing, too! I will no longer be updating this site, so please look for me at my new home.

Books by Kristen den Hartog. This will be my final post in a place that has meant a lot to me as a mother, a writer, and a reader, so please forgive my wordiness. All summer, Nellie has been reading.

Monday, August 26, 2013. Billy is still trying to get his head around the fact that his buddy and mentor, Shroom, died on the fi.

This morning, I gathered with teachers and parents outside our school as part of a national walk-in effort. This week you get a great new word that is equally handy talking about parenting or politics.

I love this time of year. Things seem to slow down just a tad, just before the new year, and allow some room for quiet and even spurts of uninterrupted reading. It can be a scary feeling.

A journey to the city at the centre of the map. Was shortlisted for the 2010 Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian literary criticism and won the Award of Merit, the highest honour given to a book at the 2011 Heritage Toronto Awards.

I come out of long retirement to share this remarkable blurb from NPR. Sarah Wendell of the blog Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. Has discovered a fatal flaw. After I posted a quote.