Category Archives: Zen

ALAN in Review

Other folks did a fan­tas­tic job of blog­ging ALAN/NCTE (yep, we’re now more impor­tant than in NCTE in my world), among them  jbknowles ‚  david­lubar  ,  pro­fes­sor­nana ‚  halse­an­der­son .  (If I missed any­one, I’ll edit this post.)  How they could take phots and update their blogs, I have no idea, and my hats are off

The Countdown Begins

The “Best YA Show on Earth” is about to begin! Two weeks and count­ing to the 2007 ALAN Work­shop in NYC, which will be held Monday-Tuesday, Nov. 19–20 at the New York Mar­riott Mar­quis Times Square, West­side Ball­room.  To view the pro­gram, which is in pdf for­mat, click here.   david­lubar  , dlgarfin­kle  , and halse­an­der­son

Not Everybody in Texas is a Moron…

..but it’s get­ting harder to tell (maybe we need the Decider to help out): Teacher could face charges over book Sheriff’s depart­ment to turn case over to DA By Doug MyersSpe­cial to the Reporter-Newsand Kyle Pevetopeve­tok [at] reporternews [dot] com Tues­day, Octo­ber 16, 2007 A probe into alle­ga­tions that a Jim Ned teacher/coach placed an inap­pro­pri­ate book in the

Ways That Life is Like a Ford

My father used to say that some­times you have to hold life together with bal­ing wire and a pair of pli­ers. Thanks to mod­ern tech­nol­ogy, I don’t have to resort to this.  I use Super Glue instead.

This is not an entry, either

Its time to update my blog, but like  David Lubar, I can’t think of any­thing, so I’m pla­gia­riz­ing his post. ‘Since I’ve been trav­el­ing so much, and since my lap­top is so old that it runs Win­dows 3.1 (really), I don’t blog much from the road. I’m wor­ried that if I don’t blog reg­u­larly, I might

Childrens Do Learn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-3FSUafZqk

Tagged

alixwrites  tagged me for this meme.  It was fun because it made me think. 1. Hard­cover or paper­back, and why? Paper­back. Hard­cov­ers are unwieldy to hold, and I like to read with one hand.  Hard­cov­ers are for col­lec­tions. 2. If I were to own a book shop I would call it… Barnes & Noble.  Just kid­ding. Cup &