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Two winners, one failure 6 Dec 2011 | 03:51 am
The failure is me. Congratulations to The Maker and the Lazy Bookworm.
Getting enough sleep and still getting into Stanford 21 Mar 2011 | 12:43 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE I wrote this for the March-April issue of VaHomeschoolers Voice. -------------------------------------------------- Here in my pleasant homescho...
Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics 31 Jan 2011 | 07:29 am
A version of this review appeared in the January-February 2008 issue of the VaHomeschooler's newsletter. I thought it was worth keeping, especially in light of the recent news on Shanghai schoolchildr...
Yes, we're still here -- and we've got three winners this time! 2 Dec 2010 | 02:58 am
As the purpose of this blog gradually bleeds off into Goodreads, Facebook, NaNoWriMo, and other venues, it's time to wave a NaNo winner badge at you one last time. So, hello, reader! Glad you dropped...
Really? 16 Jul 2010 | 12:22 pm
My Badge I write like James Joyce I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Long Time No Me 16 Jul 2010 | 12:05 pm
I'm finally reaching a conclusion on the great Kindle experiment. It's the perfect medium for ephemera. It's ideal for travel. It works well for books that you never want to revisit. But it's a poor s...
Loving the Kindle for totally unexpected reasons 15 Jan 2010 | 02:14 pm
Last week I had a dream where I was back in the newsroom of The Washington Times. The recent severe layoffs had already happened, and the future of the paper looked grim (which is true enough). But I ...
We have another winner! 28 Nov 2009 | 09:58 am
Another novel finished! That's 54,500+ words written under this roof in November. Not bad at all.
We have a winner! 28 Nov 2009 | 07:50 am
The shorter of the two two novels-in-progress is officially complete! No, you can't read it. Yet.
Freddy the Politician 19 Aug 2009 | 11:21 pm
There's so much to say about Freddy the Pig that it's hard to begin. So, aiming randomly and seeing what we happen to hit, let's start with Freddy the Politician. This book comes in during Freddy's g...
