Enhanced e-books considered

A thoughtful discussion of the pros/cons of enhanced e-books for kids.  Laura Miller covers fiction in this article and will talk about non-fiction in her next.  I'm looking forward to that. Thanks for sending me the link, Christina!

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 43,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at…

But the real satisfaction is in a job well done

Henry Morgan's ship Satisfaction is discovered!

Almost there

More on the bookshelf and cabinet project in my studio. This is the cabinet built by Rocky's Woodworking.

Bird gods very angry

That's the title of my entry for the bird house auction, which will benefit the Allegheny Valley Trails Association.  Here are samples from 2009.  Artists around here are asked to paint a wooden bird house, which will be displayed somewhere …

Mnemonics

Here's the answer to my last post, 'Gen-Xer loves numbers duty'.  When I was teaching Sunday school at Third Church I thought it would be cute to draw some cartoons to help students memorize stuff—in this case, the first five books of the…

Gen-Xer loves numbers duty

What is this supposed to mean? Here's the answer.

7-Imp 2010 roundup

One of my favorite kid-lit blogs, Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, has a retrospective of all their posts for this year. You will be humbled and inspired.

School for Santas

This is Santa Claus' busiest week, and since there's only one Santa, he can't be everywhere at once.  So what's up with all the Santas you see in department stores and malls?  Two words: Santa's helpers. These guys help out during the Christmas…

League

Three miles—roughly the distance a person can walk in an hour. As the sea-shanty Spanish Ladies tells it: We'll rant and we'll roar, like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas Until we reach soundings in the…