Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-07
Spent today helping a very dear friend get married. Amply rewarded with a performance of the Electric Slide done to bluegrass. # Powered by Twitter Tools
Obfuscation and turgidity, Part III: Just plain fear
She had not told her parents that she had written the book….She didn’t even send [them] one. If that had noticed its existence, they didn’t mention it. Most beginning writers [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-31
"The problem isn't the tests…the problem is the carrots and sticks tied to them." Thanks @countspongebob: http://t.co/XIGAE9M # Airline pilots who look like they're [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-24
Only an idiot would try to write a global narrative of world history (**tears out hair in handfuls**). # Me to DD10, this morning: "So how are you doing today?" DD10: "I'm [...]
Home education on a hot afternoon
I have a confession to make: I hate doing crafts and activities. I’ve used my own Story of the World curriculum with my kids, and now we’re going through it with my ten-year-old [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-17
Heading out for a run. 6 AM. 80 degrees. Ick. # The twelfth-century history of central Africa is tough enough. Why does it have to be in French?? # While I've been faithfully using my [...]
Obfuscation and turgidity, Part II: You might not like what I’m about to say (and I might not actually know what it is)…
Last week I finished reading The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear, by Ralph Keyes. As you can guess from the title, Keyes talks a lot about fear. Fear, he suggests, leads to turgid, [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-10
Here in Virginia, we will once again celebrate the Fourth by slowly melting into our shoes. # Returned from fireworks washout to find 6-ft blacksnake strangling a chicken–the sixth to die [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-03
Country ROADS, take me HOME… # Working on medieval Hungary this morning. Kind of waiting for something REALLY interesting to happen that doesn't involve border wars. # Well, blindings [...]
Writing and cooking
The new season of Gordon-Ramsay-themed cooking shows has begun. Yes, OK, I’m addicted. Thank goodness I don’t KNOW him, or work for him, or in any way have to interact with him on a [...]
This here is not a good sign
I just came across this grammar review site. It was put together (according to the site itself) “by teaching professionals to help students and teachers gain more information and [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-26
Just got smeared at Settlers of Catan. Again. # New grammar resources (exciting for those of us who are grammar geeks): http://t.co/hKjh4Sb # Finishing school w/kids this morning, then packing [...]