Working with Zora Neale Hurston's family to adapt her legendary literature for kids has been joyous. As a writer. As a #girldad. And today, on Zora’s birthday, I'm thrilled to announce my second adaptation: THE MAKING OF BUTTERFLIES, a board book illustrated by Kah Yangni. THE MAKING OF BUTTERLIES opens the imagination of our babies about the work of creation and how the world came to be. This fun folktale comes from Zora's classic ethnographical collection of southern African American folklore,

A little picture from the past and some more history behind Milam Mules and the Select Mule Sale. 105 Missouri mules. RD Clayton sold a load of mules to EP Coleman in 1933. Pictured in fourground from left is “Toots” Raglan, sheriff Tom Scott and on horseback Paul Scott. The photograph was taken on the Scott farm on the southedge of Benton Missouri. Clayton said he retailed more than 5,000 two and three year old mules that year to planters in Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas in addition