by applewooddollhospital | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Essays
In high school and college, I used to feel so stupid studying literature because I never saw the imagery within it on my own. When I read the assigned books, I would usually think, ‘that was a pretty good book’, but that was where it ended for...
by applewooddollhospital | Aug 20, 2025 | Blog, Essays
My exposure to fox hunting was entirely via television and, in particular, the movie Mary Poppins. Like most children who saw that movie, I was greatly distressed for the poor,...
by applewooddollhospital | Jul 28, 2025 | Blog, Essays
I have a bunch of kids and I homeschool and I pretend to be a writer so I stay busy. Ipso facto, the age of divorce kind of snuck up on me. Having lived some life, I knew a...
by applewooddollhospital | Jul 17, 2025 | Blog, Essays
One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of pictures of smiling men in striped jump suits in my social media feed. There was such joy in the pictures! My heart was...
by applewooddollhospital | Jan 25, 2025 | Blog, Saturday Fairy Eggs
My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. “Don’t they hibernate?” He’d seen it on SpongeBob so it must be so. We found out that some squirrels do hibernate, but many don’t. Which is why they...
