Districts and English departments are scrambling for “diverse” books–while some of us have been doing this work, time to continue and support.… Read More Series: White People Homework (22) ‘Canon’ Fodder
Krampus is the dark companion of St. Nicholas, the traditional European winter gift-bringer who rewards good children each year on December 6. The kindly old Saint leaves the task of punishing bad children to a hell-bound counterpart known by many names across the continent — Knecht Ruprecht, Certa, Perchten, Black Peter, Schmutzli, Pelznickel, Klaubauf, and Krampus.… Read More Myth of the Month Club: Krampus
There is a popular how-to book going around the ‘net now titled The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo. Since I have invested a lot of time and energy in breeding and care of dust bunnies, this topic doesn’t interest me. When the dust bunny farm goes south, perhaps… Read More …the unbearable lightness of knowledge…
https://giphy.com/embed/MF3fDJIFZ0ORO via GIPHY I will stay married to my husband for as long as we both shall live. Yes, we made altar-born promises, but what gives us the stamina is really this: no one is as interesting or as insightful as I find him to be. He is inquisitive, and questions/seeks answers. I have learned… Read More Questioning Authority: How to use questions/discussions in reading
From the Writer’s Almanac, February 18, 2010: In the summer of 1883, Mark Twain wrote in a letter: “I am piling up manuscript in a really astonishing way. I believe I shall complete, in two months, a book which I have been fooling over for seven years. This summer it is no more trouble to… Read More My Huckleberry Friend.
This is something that’s been nagging at me a little bit–have you ever noticed that a hit book will come out, and then there comes a slew of wannabes? For example, when the Harry Potter series was published, and J.K. Rowling made more money than the Queen, publishers would have sold their own mothers to… Read More Wannabes, posers, and the real deal.
http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=6010825 Snow White and the 7…
You know, my Washingtonian darlings, you won’t start school until Monday, August 31. And you will complain, although I have it on good authority you’re actually excited to be back. It’s okay. You don’t have to tell me. Anyway, one of my favorite cousin’s sons has already started ninth grade English. I’m not sure if… Read More You've got style, babe…
Mrs. Kelly Love 
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