… Like this tool that compares a chunk of text to the words used in Shakespeare’s plays. How Shakespearean is your writing? http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/08/how-shakespearean-are-you/ I checked five different posts from my blog here and got scores between 85-89% for all of them! What fun things have you found lately?
When was the last time you tried something brand new? I think a lot of us are more likely to push boundaries and try new things when we’re teenagers and in our early twenties. The older we get, when we really should have more opportunities available to us, it seems like many of us settle [...]
Lately I’ve been reading Stephen King’s Duma Key, and I am reminded yet again how much he has ‘written from pain’ (and of pain) ever since the accident in 1999. His previous books were scary, and I thought they were well-written then, but his writing in the years since often evokes a depth of – reality? [...]
This week I’ve been reading a book that every parent, teacher, school official, and many children should read. Please Stop Laughing at Us, by Jodee Blanco I was teased and excluded by my peers in school from the time I was in fourth or fifth grade until I left high school. Before that I had [...]
My son is not self-conscious, and for that I am thankful. We have home-schooled him for over four years; since before he was old enough for kindergarten. Some people, particularly his extended family, ask me if I plan to “get him into a regular school” at some point, or if I plan to keep up [...]