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February 15, 2010
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February 13, 2010
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In Appalachia, a Researcher Makes Honey From Coal – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education – "Her vision is to create nothing less than an Appalachian "honey corridor" in eastern Kentucky and neighboring West Virginia, starting with more than 33,000 surface-mined acres, which could be reforested in a way that sets up a bee industry." HT: Monica @ small...
February 11, 2010
A Word of Caution about Google Buzz
Like everyone else, I'm still trying to figure out the ins and outs of Buzz, but I made one discovery I wanted to tell other parents about ASAP—if your kid comments on one of your buzz posts, all your followers (as far as I can tell) can see that comment, even if they aren't following your kid themselves. And it looks like you can only comment on buzz if you have made your Google profile public, so that means any other followers can click through to your child's profile.
(Obviously this...
February 10, 2010
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Top 100 Children's Novels (#85-81)—A Fuse #8 Production—Betsy Bird has begun posting the results of her Top 100 Children's...
February 9, 2010
Tuesday Morning Booknotes
Ha, Tuesday morning. The title's as far as I got before the howling hordes awoke. Tuesday night now, after an afternoon of pounding rain. Rilla kept asking me to be her blanket. I was happy to oblige, because this meant snuggling on the couch while the baby napped and I finished a book I picked up yesterday and could not put down. I'll write a proper review later. For now I am still too caught up in it to be articulate. It was a review copy of Kathryn Erskine's remarkable middle-grade novel, ...
February 7, 2010
"Mr. Queed, you are afflicted with a fatal malady. Your cosmos is pure ego."
The home page of this website (the "My Website" tab above) seems to have gone temporarily bananas—instead of my usual welcome message, it's channeling the text of the Carney's House Party post I wrote a couple of weeks ago. Anyone happen to notice when this started? I can't remember when I last clicked on the home page. Hmm.
I have no idea what the problem is, but I've written my Swank web genius and I am sure she'll fix me up in no time.
Speaking of Carney, I've been perusing her yet again as ...
February 5, 2010
This Week Was
• getting set up for Journey North (first batch of clues are out today, woohoo!)
• watching Beanie fall into Redwall
• wobbly steps growing more confident…suddenly this baby is EVERYWHERE
• LOST is back. I is happy.
• thinking and thinking about Carney and Winona
• George Mason and the Bill of Rights
• Big Bad Bunny until I know it by heart
• magical red blooms on the amaryllis
• lots of stuff to read online—Salinger, Apple, Macmillan, and Amazon kept me busy
• several kinds ...
February 2, 2010
Dear iPad, Please Don't Move to Kent
Dear iPad,
I know you're really busy right now, so I went ahead and took the Which Jane Austen Character Are You quiz for both of us. Hope you don't mind.
It came out that you are Charlotte Lucas and I am Elizabeth Bennet. Which wasn't at all what I was expecting, but if you think about it, it makes a ton of sense.
Lizzie: skirts six inches deep in mud
Me: clothes constantly smeared with peanut butter and masticated goldfish crackers
Lizzie: marries sarcastic, sensitive man who dislikes mingling
February 1, 2010
Journey North Mystery Class
We have been participating in the Mystery Class hunt for five years now. I think it's five. Could it be six? Five or six, it's been a blast every time.
Here's a post I wrote about it two years ago (full of nuts & bolts info).
Things don't really get rolling until this Friday, when the first set of clues come out, so you've got plenty of time to sign up at the Journey North website. (It's free.) It's way fun.
