HARMLESS THOUGHTS

Why do I love my daddy ? Sam says..."I love my daddy because he always plays with me and he has fun with me a lot of times. I know he loves me." Jo says..."I love my daddy because I love him." What is your favorite thing to do with daddy ? Sam says..."Play Star Craft with him." Jo says..."I like him to swing me around." What is your favorite memory with daddy ? Sam says..."Playing at the beach with daddy and going with him in the waves!" Jo says..."Playing memory match with him in the closet!" What makes daddy mad ? Sam says..."When I don't obey and arguing with Jo" Jo says..."When I hit bubba!" What makes daddy laugh ? Sam says..."When the big waves hit my face!" Jo says..."When I scare him!" What's daddy's favorite thing to eat ? Sam says..."Meat and bread" Jo says..."Salad" What is daddy's job ? Sam says..."The Moving Company" Jo says......

                                                      

I have always been a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes. Bill Watterson developed an instant classic with the creation of this comic strip. This is the only comic that I ever went to any measure of effort to follow. I think that I own all of the books, so I am pretty sure that I have the entire collection. I have kept the books in my classroom every year, and most of the time I have been willing to share them with my students. A couple of weeks ago my son found one of these books. I read a couple of them to him that I thought that he might find funny. He really enjoyed them and asked if he could borrow the book. I told him that was absolutely fine, partly because I thought that it was neat that my son was enjoying the same comics that I had enjoyed. I could remember this one time, when I was a kid, that I found this really old Charlie Brown comic book. The book was pretty ancient, with old worn pages that were starting to look brittle and brown. I didn't care though, I read throug...