I got up to 80,000 words on my current novel back in March or April. Since then I’ve been trying to turn this great mass of verbiage into a proper story with a likeable protagonist and an entertaining problem to solve … it turned out that I had written a lot but failed on those [...]
When I started teaching, my first year was pure survival. I certainly presented material so that students could learn but I didn’t really understand classrooms or the dynamics of the students in middle school. I can say looking back, that I did understand a certain amount about certain students but I could have done so [...]
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... My mother said, and [...]
Suburban Banshee wrote a lovely column here https://suburbanbanshee.wordpress.com/?wref=bif about the reading for Sunday, June 29th, celebrating the Solemnity of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Her discussion is both hilarious and informative. The reading from Acts 12:5-17 is about the rescue of Saint Peter from the dungeons of Herod, after Herod had executed Saint James the [...]
I made an upside down cake that I didn’t turn upside down. It didn’t want to come loose from the pan, and I didn’t care. Just cut pieces, dug them out of the pan, and enjoyed. It used four cups of rhubarb and 1 1/3 cups of flour. That seemed like a lot of fruit [...]
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