Many of us grew up learning to read with Dr. Seuss. While we’ve talked about how his affair led to his wife’s suicide already, there are many more stories
On March 2, Read Across America Day, Garrison Commander, Col. Glenn Mellor and Garrison Sgt. Major Juan Jimenez read to children at the Family and Morale Welfare and Welfare Child
Good morning, it’s Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Today is the 117
th birthday of Dr. Seuss, real name Theodor Geisel, who made a career out of making children laugh and adults think. And sometimes the other way around.
He certainly got political satirist Art Buchwald chuckling, and thinking, in 1974 as the Watergate scandal consumed Washington. Ted Geisel sent the liberal columnist a Dr. Seuss book he’d written two years earlier titled “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!”
In the copy the author sent to Buchwald, he exchanged Marvin Mooney’s name for Richard Nixon’s (which is how some people read it in 1972). Buchwald, naturally, turned it into a column. Although Geisel was a loyal Democrat, today I suspect he’d send the book to Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger. Certainly, to Mitt Romney; perhaps even to Mitch McConnell.
December 16, 2020 - By Ward Schumaker
When my son was young we’d read a book or two each night before he went to sleep, and invariably he’d ask for just one more. For that extra read, one title became my favorite:
Marvin K. Mooney Won’t You Please Go Now, by Dr. Seuss: “The time has come! The time is now! JUST GO, GO, GO! I DON’T CARE HOW! Marvin K. Mooney, will you please go now?!” As refrains go, this one was useful in persuading my son that it was finally time for to go to sleep.