by Judith Heaney | Aug 1, 2025 | 365 Reasons
Anyone who has ever put a kid to bed, whether as a parent or a babysitter, has likely read Goodnight Moon as they’ve tucked the child into bed. Even though my girls are 17 and 15 now, I have vivid memories of sitting with one or both girls beside me and reading each...
by Judith Heaney | Jul 31, 2025 | 365 Reasons
When our girls were little, we read a lot of picture books and developed many favorites, including Harry the Dirty Dog, Olivia the Pig, The Day the Crayons Quit, and several by David Wiesner, including Art & Max, Tuesday, and Sector 7. One of the strong appeals of...
by Judith Heaney | Jul 30, 2025 | 365 Reasons
There is a quote from poet Mary Oliver’s poem, The Summer Day that gets shared a lot on social media: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? But it is the two lines that precede these two oft quoted ones that for me gives these lines...
by Judith Heaney | Jul 29, 2025 | 365 Reasons
When I first announced this project to my family, first to my husband, for whom I had done a similar project right after we had our first baby girl, and then to my teenagers, it was only my 17 year old who wondered aloud whether it was possible for me to find 365...
by Judith Heaney | Jul 28, 2025 | 365 Reasons
When my girls were very young, they were almost always in my line of sight. Whether they were reading or watching a movie (at the time it tended to be on one of our laptop screens) or playing, they were within glancing-up-at-them distance. I don’t know if they were as...
