I want this guy’s life.
Maybe it’s just an aftereffect of doing all the history, but I want to make up universes for the next ten years for $$$$. One Million Pounds= = Slightly Less
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21
Monday, family day: heading off the grid now. Without my to-do list. # And the to-do list RETURNS! (cue spooky monster music) # Rediscovering a basic truth: once you become a “real [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14
Heading off the grid for family day. (DD8: “Mommy, today we can do a REALLY BIG PROJECT together!” I am afraid.) # Monday is my day off. Tuesday is my Monday. I’m not crazy [...]
That’s it. As a society, we’re probably doomed.
A couple of days ago, I got the following email from a member of the Teach for America corps who knows me through my connection with William and Mary. (I’m posting this with the [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07
Walking right at dusk: lightning bugs, moonshadow in front of me, the air smells like barley. # Back to work today. Writing 1st, small-press business 2nd, take DS12 to violin lesson 3rd, [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31
Like the rest of the movie going world, I want to know what happened to Christian Bale’s larynx. # Hmm. Now we know why Christian Bale lost it on the set. He was thinking, THIS is my [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24
Copyedits: underway. Lots of ’em. How is it possible that I spelled so many medieval names in so many various ways? # Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy BIRTHDAY deeaaar [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17
DD8 had two requests for this trip: climb a mountain (done) & go see the place where they throw fish (Pike Place market, this afternoon). # My Seattle luck seems to be running out. It’s [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10
Family day today: going off the grid PLUS taking all four dogs to the vet. What fun. # Annual trek to vet over. White mutt: healthy. Beagle #1: bad knees. Beagle #2: hyperthyroid. Puppy: shy [...]
The real story behind textbooks
My friend Charlie forwarded this to me from Edutopia. It is as though these textbook publishers are operating in a different universe than I live in, the one where I write history and Peace Hill [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-03
There’s a fingernail moon tonight, but the sky is black; an impossibly thick dusting of stars. # Family day today: bringing home German shepherd puppy for DS12. I have mixed feelings. # [...]
The 52 Books challenge, Weeks…oh, I can’t remember.
Just FYI, I have been keeping up with the 52 Books in 52 Weeks challenge, I just haven’t been posting about it. I’m enjoying reading the books, but I’m plain old unmotivated [...]