Frazz by Jef Mallett follows the adventures of an unexpected role model: an elementary-school janitor who's also a Renaissance man. While he's sweeping the hall, he's whistling Beethoven. Or Lyle Lovett. He paints the woodwork in the classrooms; he paints a Da Vinci on the cafeteria wall. He's a trusted authority figure who is every kid's buddy. He took the janitor's job while he was a struggling songwriter, and when he finally sold a hit song, he decided to stay on at school. Frazz appears in 200 newspapers worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune and Detroit News. "A few years back, I wrote and illustrated a children's book," says Mallett. "When I was traveling around reading it at school assemblies, I noticed that often, the most respected, best-liked grown-up in the building was the janitor. And I thought, 'Hmm, there's a comic strip in that.'" Often praised for its intelligent wit, gentle spirit and effortless diversity, Frazz won a Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council in 2003 and 2005 for excellence in communicating values and ethics.
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runar
said, 6 months ago
Saunas are Finnish, not Norwegian, though their use has spread throughout Scandinavia.
The sauna is the room. The heat bath is called a kylpy.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago
Russian, too.
c001 said, 6 months ago
Isn’t Mrs. Olsen Norwegian, too?
vwdualnomand said, 6 months ago
i wonder why they spend a hour in the sauna, then splash cold water on themselves, and go back into the sauna to repeat the process all while they drink vodka.
c001 said, 6 months ago
@vwdualnomand
I don’t know about the vodka but the sauna stuff is about a kind of hardening against the cold. Assumedly you don’t catch a cold easily if you do the sauna regularly.
Notsoastute said, 6 months ago
@c001
Yah, shure !
Ewal Doh said, 6 months ago
@vwdualnomand
Uh, maybe it’s because of the vodka.
davidh48 said, 6 months ago
Hot tubs and snow, excellent. Just add “friends.”
rshive said, 6 months ago
As Garrison Keillor put it once, “sun-crazed Scandinavians”.
USAFMSGT said, 6 months ago
Sauna’s use rocks. Hence the drink ‘vodka on the rocks’.
catzilla23 said, 6 months ago
@c001
you don’t get a cold from ambient temperature, you get a cold from a virus.
Shirl Summ
said, 6 months ago
@vwdualnomand
Why not!
Dave Baugh said, 6 months ago
The apple is speaking.
Chikuku said, 6 months ago
Some North American native peoples also adopted the sauna-Kylpy- sweatlodge from the Vikings. They are still doing it.
hippogriff said, 6 months ago
It is international: Lakota, Scythians, Turks, only the name is Finnish.