Category Archives: Zen

Deal Posted in PW’s Childrens’ Bookshelf

Under the right col­umn “Rights Report“http://tinyurl.com/2ne7vx

Loose Ends

The response to the Ketchin­gup post was over­whelm­ing. Thanks to every­one who posted and to all the folks who friended me.  The pub­lish­ing indus­try is on hol­i­day, so I don’t expect any news until after New Years.  After a week of con­stantly check­ing email and voice­mail, I find myself at loose ends.  I guess I

Whew! I’m Glad That’s Over

The ketchup’s finally out of the bottle.

For the Principal and Detective

This video about the Con­sti­tu­tion gang is da bomb. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TXJRZ4CFc

The First Amendment Also Protects Stupid Speech

This link leads to a story about a Wis­con­sin teacher who made a tongue-in-check (albeit insen­si­tive, cruel, and short-sighted) post on a blog.  It landed him in jail. Police Capt. Toby Netko defended the arrest. He said the teacher who com­plained was dis­turbed by the ref­er­ence to “one shot at a time” and other edu­ca­tors agreed

A Thank You and A Call for Readers

Thanks to every­one who com­mented or emailed about my last post on page-turners.  The sug­ges­tions have helped, and I’m work­ing my way through the text, throw­ing out chap­ters and rear­rang­ing oth­ers.  It’s a slog, as most of you know, being mas­ter slog­gers your­selves. I do have one request, and I admit that I make it