Reading and Writing Tales

What we’re reading: Spring 2012 edition

How much do I love that all my kids are now independent readers? Toby especially caught on fast in kindergarten and 1st grade: his teacher remarked on how advanced his instincts are for intonation, always pausing in the right places and emphasizing the right words, and I attribute that to how much he’s been read [...]

Having words.

I can’t play Words with Friends for shit. Everyone assumes I can (in fact, most of my friends won’t even play me), because I can write, but I’m telling you, this skill is of absolutely no use on a Scrabble board. Also on my total fail list: Boggle. I used to have to play with [...]

Allah and Ole!

I sincerely hope you all aren’t sick of my writing about writing. I do solemnly swear that I am actually writing as well. (The robin’s egg bump on my forehead where I continually beat it against the wall should attest to that.) But even if you are sick of it, humor me please? My writing [...]

The internet has been good to me

Most of you will remember I have two identities online (well, two you know about, wink-wink): my creative writing self, who’s all Scrivener this, and narrative voice that, and my freelance travel self, who’s all national parks this, and passports that. Duel Twitter personalities, duel Facebook pages, duel WordPress updates. Yes, it can be awkward [...]

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