Nomenclature
I love words, and am fascinated with their variety. (If you’re a writer, It comes with the territory.) We name things in order to identify… Read More »Nomenclature
Tom Birdseye is the critically-acclaimed author of 19 young adult, middle grade, picture book, and non-fiction works.
I love words, and am fascinated with their variety. (If you’re a writer, It comes with the territory.) We name things in order to identify… Read More »Nomenclature
2/2/22, and what better way to celebrate than 2×2 yokes for breakfast! (No yoke, they are not Photoshopped in.) Lots of two’s followed: I went… Read More »Et two, tom?
As you may have heard, things are prone, sooner or later, to fall apart. And when the thing that falls apart is the driver’s-side rearview… Read More »Repeat, Repeat, Repeat
Last night Debbie and I celebrated the 48th anniversary of our first date. It was 1973, and we were both students at Western Kentucky University… Read More »Stories that last
By definition, doing something requires first getting started—no start, no do. Which sounds simple enough—just take the first step and then keep on walking; just… Read More »Writing Ritual
Halloween. Trick-or-treaters at the door. Not sure if we’d stocked up on enough candy, my wife and I offered a choice: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups… Read More »Kids these days
Apparently Socrates, the dude credited with the founding of Western philosophy, came up with this idea of a Super-Duper Magic Ring (Greek term from the… Read More »This is a test
Okay, so this was the riddle I made up: “What can walk for hours—constant forward momentum, one foot in front of the other, right-left-right-left—yet go… Read More »Pavlov’s Dog
What can walk for hours—constant forward momentum, one foot in front of the other, right-left-right-left—yet go nowhere and at the same time go anywhere imaginable?
On Wednesday, September 22, planet Earth wasn’t tilted toward the sun, or away from it. Our spinning blue marble was straight up on its axis… Read More »Thinking about Equality