Tag: good causes

Beaman Memorial Library in West Boylston, Massachusetts

There is a library-lovin’ challenge going on around the blogging world, and YOU can get involved. A group of generous writer/bloggers have pledged to make donations to their favorite libraries; the amount of their donation depends on how many people visit and comment on their library-lovin’ blog posts. Read all about it here, and then, if you can, spend some time cheering the participants. Every comment you make sends money to a deserving library somewhere in the world.

I wasn’t able to join the festivities, but I have been inspired to show my love for the Beaman Memorial Library in West Boylston, Massachusetts. I sponsor the library’s subscriptions to Scientific American and Discover for Kids. (You are not surprised by these choices, are you?) This year, though, in honor of the generous spirit of Jenn Hubbard and all her library lovin’ friends, I’ll add a third magazine renewal to my donation.

So, friends, what third magazine should I pick?

 

Christmas morning, 1979ish

I was a horse kid. That is, I lived and breathed horses during my growing up years. But since I spent those years in a large suburb of Boston, and since no one in my family owned a house, much less a stable, I had no choice but to live and breathe them vicariously. The easiest way to do that, of course, was through books. Oh, the horses I knew …

I have begun to share these books with my daughter, who seems to be a horse kid too*. She pours over them, and she has begun building a library of her own horsey favorites …

So, when I read about the horse library that author (and friend!) Sara Lewis Homes is building for Flying Horse Farms, a “magical, transforming and fun camp for children with serious illnesses and their families”, I was excited to help out. Please read this post and this post to learn more about Sara’s project and how you too can share horse books with kids who adore them.

Thank you, Sara, for giving us all another way to share books. And happy reading to all the horse kids at Flying Horse Farms!

*In one of those coincidences that absolutely rattles my uber-rational mind, my kids and I began reading MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE today … more than eighteen months after I planned, but mere hours before I clicked open Sara’s post. Weird, no?