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February 16

Today is February 16. Three years ago, in the world of my novel, "Cool for Cats," a young lawyer in Atlanta was mowed down in an early morning hit-and-run accident. Now, three years later, a low-rent investigator is asked to figure out why nobody ever solved, pursued, or seemed to care about the case. Our hero is a process-server more than a crime-solver, but when he finds out who the young woman was, and how he, himself, is connected to her, he realizes he can't say no.

Have you read "Cool for Cats?" If not, check it out and give it a try.

Cool for Cats at Amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/7hwk259

Free Read!

Hey, Friends:

If you've been wanting to read "Cool for Cats" AND you're an Amazon Prime Member, you can borrow the book electronically and read for free.

That's FREE, friends. F-R-E-E. $0.00.

Grab it while you can:

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Can You Hear Me Now?

A free audio recording of the first chapter of my mystery novel, Cool for Cats (performed by me), is up on the Forgotten Classics podcast. Stop on by and check it out.

Many thanks to Julie Davis for posting and sharing it.

Living in Truth

As a child of the 1970s, someone who became aware of the larger world during Vietnam and Watergate, I'm not the kind of person who has a lot of heroes. It's a character flaw of my generation that we assume clay feet instantly, and spend most of our time searching for them, to prove ourselves right. We expect to be disappointed, so we make damned sure we will be disappointed. And if we're foolish

The Elephant in the Room

Grant Wiggins has a thoughtful blog post up today about academic standards--the third in a series. In this post, he discusses the uselessness of the single grade, either the "A" of traditional grading or the "meets standard" of today's report cards. He proposes a different way of evaluating student work, which is multifaceted and, for a change, useful to students, parents, and teachers.  It is

Giveaway #2

I am giving away another copy of "Cool for Cats" on Goodreads.com.  The giveaway begins on Monday, November 14 and closes on Monday, November 28.  Stop by and sign up for a free book!




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How Do You REALLY Feel?

From Chris Tessone at NRO Online:

The liberal arts were once about studying how to live, informed by literary, philosophical, and historical accounts of how others conducted their lives. Students took a coherent set of core courses and immersed themselves in the Western canon. The academics of today instead offer programs catering to teenage sloth and narcissism, giving kids and their helicopter

Fertile Ground?

There's a lot of talk these days about the "flipped classroom," the idea that we can use technology, specifically streaming video, to accomplish more of the "information download" of our curriculum at home, where students can learn at their own pace, their own way, re-reading or re-watching as often as they need to, without holding up the rest of the class, and then use more of our in-class time

Looking for Mysteries Where There Are None

There is plenty to wonder and dream and think about, where Shakespeare and his work are concerned, but whether or not the man called "Shakespeare" actually wrote the plays attributed to him seems to be the question of the hour, right now. Following in the glorious footsteps of Oliver Stone, who claimed to understand American History better than actual historians because he was...well, a famous

In Search of Hundred Acre Wood

When I was a kid--around 10 or 11, probably--I used to have a tree in our backyard that was my hiding place. It sat against our back fence, its trunk buried in hedges. It wasn't a very big tree, but it was easily climbable, and once you were up in its lower branches, you were invisible to the world. When I needed to get out from under Family and all the cares and woes of being 10, it's where I