Tag: James Thurber

Fast away the old year..

  I pulled my head in out of the window and listened. I heard the reindeer on the roof. I could hear their hoofs pawing and prancing on the roof. “Shut the window,” said mamma. I stood still and listened. From A Visit from Saint Nicholas (In the Ernest Hemingway Manner) by James Thurber. Read …

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Getting it write

Don’t get it right, just get it written. American author and illustrator James Thurber was born on this day in 1894 (died 1961). Everybody’s a nag… I’m writing. I’m writing. Or, I’m trying to. December suddenly got a lot busier than I had planned. No, except for a few daytime work trips that took me …

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