Team Gray!

Last year, in a grandiose display of bravado, I bet the children I could read 1984, The Grapes of Wrath and The Call of the Wild before Yanni could read Tom Sawyer, and Xay could read Old Yeller. I was a little nervous when Yanni had finished Tom Sawyer in four days. I decided to [...]

I graduated from High School in 1985, and by then, all the furor over George Orwell’s book had died down. I don’t know how I got out of having to read 1984 in High School, but I thought maybe I better find out what all the hoopla was about last year.

Where was all the WWII history when I was in school? It seems the whole 20th century was covered in a worldwind of multiple choice. I chose 1975. So, what I knew about WWII came from a book I read by Judy Blume,