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De lente begon. Ik stond nog eens in ons vorig huis, wat een gekke ervaring was. Flo kreeg de waterpokken. Ik trakteerde mezelf op rood haar. De kindjes konden nog eens buiten spelen. Wat ze ook deden, met stoepkrijt en flink wat prehistorische hulp.

De boer achter ons huis liet de koeien weer op...

Many have asked when Kiss This Too will be released. I apologize for the delay. I won’t even go into the “why”… 

Kiss This Too will be out before month’s end… (within a week)

It will be announced as soon as it’s published. I promise. 

For now… how about an EXCERPT?

The post KISS THIS TOO appeared fi...

This weekend, I’ve spent the majority of my Internet time swatting detractors of my latest piece on Vox about the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT). Here, an excerpt:

Essentially, these schools enshrined into law the right to ignore school performance, grades, interviews, standardiz...

The Guardian‘s Hadley Freeman profiled me for the paper, ahead of the release of my new book in the UK. Here’s a taste:

This feeling of separateness – of being, as she puts it, “the person in the corner observing everything but who no one pays attention to” – would become a running theme in her...

I have a lot of time for Matt Haig. His book Reasons to Stay Alive is, quite frankly, essential reading when it comes to anxiety and depression. It’s not a self-help book, it’s not stuffed with lessons and things that you can apply to your own struggles necessarily, but it is a book that is seari...

“This Is Good For Trump — If Barr Is Representing Things Fairly,” my editor Micah suggested as the headline for this column when we were talking over whether I should write something on Attorney General William Barr’s summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.1

“I mean, isn’t that kinda o...

Looking at pictures of your older son reading the first issue of the comic he wrote to your grandchildren…

(Thanks to the fabulous Kasey Langan for the photos!)

I find it astounding when I see how many people have joined the ISIS. They are willing to speak a foreign tongue, move to an alien culture and that too a desert, roam around with weapons, brutally decapitate anyone who does not adhere to their radical Salafi ideas irrespective of whether the vict...

An interview with Chris Hadfield on why he became an astronaut, why he used social media in space, what it’s like being in space, what the most common astronaut myth is and his best advice.

Welcome to the 23rd episode of 5 Questions with Dan Schawbel (Subscribe on iTunes). As your host, my goal is...

Oh, eten. Ik ben er zoveel mee bezig en ben er gek op. Als kind ook al, ik was echt een ‘peuzelaar’ zoals mijn vader dat noemde, en ik at het liefst de hele dag door. Maar ik walgde echt van witlof, kaas kreeg je er bij mij echt niet in (behalve gesmolten) en aardappels […]

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I know we’ve all heard that saying, and most have us have probably quoted it a time or three. But the underlying meaning is true: I’ve been really struggling for some time and am finally able to give voice to it.

It started last year when I had a bit of mini-breakdown. Several pers...

Dear Reading Friends, this is David Telbat. Before I ever started writing Dawn of Affliction, I wrote down 22 Bible Scriptures that inspired me in sculpting the character of Levi Caspertein. These were Scriptures that would give me goals for the life of the character as he traveled through all ki...

Today’s the day! We’re wrapping up the first quarter of 2019 and we’re heading into this next quarter knowing that we started it right by backing up our Lightroom Classic catalog today (and we’ll all be sleeping better tonight night for it).

While the process of backing up your catalog is easy, fi...

Painter Of Dreams by Valentina-Remenar

மதிபபிறகுரிய ஜெ,

நலமா.

மரபை விருமபுவதும வெறுபபதுவும எபபடி? செனனை கடடண உரையின தலைபபிறகாகவே நான கடடாயம வர வேணடும எனறு முடிவு செயதேன. மிக அறபுதமான உரை. உஙகளையும அருணமொழி மேடம அவரகளையும  சநதிதததில மகிழசசி.

மரபினை பறறி ஒரு ஒடடுமொதத பாரவையை   அளிததது  இவவுரை.இரணடு பகுதிகளாக அமைநதது மிகவும நனறாக இருநதது...

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Ever wondered how Orna met the crew of the Capricious for the very first time? What were the fighting pits she spoke about on the dusty world of Clarkesfall, and how did the rescue operation really happen?

This story is really, actually free, but of course, I have an ulterior mo...

Working a dog on sheep has much to tell us about good dog training.

I am out of town this week, meeting with the good people at Dogwise in Wenatchee, WA. So I’m reprinting a post from 2010, which has me grinning like a fool because 1) It’s fun for me to read about Willie’s early driving lessons...

School Days, school days

Dear old Golden Rule days

How many of us can fill in the three ‘R’s that make up the next line?

I’ll bet many, if not all of us can. Those three ‘R’s explain why, in this country, education prizes what’s right-brain over left-brain, what’s in the head over the heart or th...

Patrick O’Doyle is badly wounded, but Bertha Lybrand is in even worse shape. Her KoolSuit has failed and she’s dying of heat exposure. They just came across Angus Kool, who is tied up with copper wire after being tortured by Kayla Meyers. He is helpless, at O’Doyle’s...

I recently received an important question about a highly significant textual variant in Luke 23:34, the one and only place in the NT where Jesus prays for those responsible for his death “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they’re doing.”  The verse is not found in the other Gospels, and...

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I listen to a lot of music when I write. Perhaps in the beginning it was a way of blocking out the noise of hellish traffic when I used to write while stuck in a jeepney in the polluted streets of Manila. Or a way to stay awake while scribbling in a battered notebook at the air cond...

I have nothing but praise for Becoming by Michelle Obama. It is an intelligent, layered, comprehensive and fascinating biography, about which I’ll go into more detail in a moment. What I first want to mention is that this was also my first Audible audiobook.

As I’ve been training for Oxfam and sp...