by Xianna Michaels | Sep 5, 2014 | Books
dragons September 7th is Grandparents Day. I’ve already written about my maternal grandmother, who got off the boat and literally kissed the ground (Echoes of Emma Lazarus). She managed to transmit to me her reverence for this country and what it stood for. My...
by Xianna Michaels | Aug 23, 2014 | Books
dragons I am not a Luddite. Truly, I am not. I appreciate the marvels – even miracles – that technology has wrought. I even avail myself of some of them. I can Google with the best of them (and even use the proper noun as a verb), I understand the value of a website,...
by Xianna Michaels | Aug 18, 2014 | Editorial
art One of my grandsons, who’s in elementary school, was home sick for a few days and very bored. He loves to draw so I went to the bookstore to buy him some kind of How-to-Draw Monsters or Superheroes – type of book. What I found – in the kids’ section – were several...
by Xianna Michaels | Aug 12, 2014 | Books
books Mindel and The Misfit Dragons: A Magical Tale by An Ancient Hand is a magical, medieval verse fairy tale imaginatively told by Xianna Michaels. This is the story of a brave Jewish girl living in a castle where it is very hard to keep the Sabbath and where...
by Xianna Michaels | Aug 10, 2014 | Editorial
Month: August 2014 I wrote my very first poem for a school assignment in the third grade. I remember the exhilaration I felt when the words came to me and I realized, “I can do this.” I wrote many poems for my teacher, Mrs. Blank, that year. I don’t remember them, but...
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