Category Archives: Elephant’s Child

Storytellers: Who Do You love?

What author is earliest in your memory? Depending on your generation, it could be anyone from Dickens to Milne, Seuss to Sendak. For me, it’s Kipling. My father used to read aloud to us at the table every Sunday night … Continue reading

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Baby Love

I wasn’t the only new arrival to Oregon two weeks ago.  On the same day the movers delivered my furniture, Rose-Tu, an Asian elephant at the Portland Zoo delivered her 300-lb baby, which was quickly christened “Lily”.  Like the rest … Continue reading

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