Monday, March 23, 2009

Storytelling by others is powerful source of self-knowledge

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Such is the conclusion of some research reported in e!Science News . The focus of the research is on how good a predictor other people'...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Truman Capote

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On our Spring break travels through southern Alabama, we stopped in Monroeville, hometown to Harper Lee and Truman Capote. Capote was never ...

Monroeville

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For Spring Break, we drove down to Dauphin Island at the head of Mobile Bay in Alabama. I love these back roads excursions. I love being s...

Quite, Almost Too Quiet

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The site that is. A combination of Spring Break for the children and a major technology push which I hope to announce in a couple or three ...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

Book Numbers

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In the US each year, between 25,000 and 35,000 new children's books are published. I just came across this interesting fact in The Story...
Sunday, February 8, 2009

Common sense from a lifetime ago

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For Christmas my mother sent me a facsimile of Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942 , a short (originally seven typed pages)...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

A Hero and a Paragon

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Thank goodness for men like Captain Chesley Sullenberger, setting examples in everything he does. See the following article in the LA Times...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Ouch and double ouch!

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From Robert Hendrickson's The Literary Life and Other Curiosities (1994). Gustave Flaubert writing to a friend: Criticism occupies the ...

Plus ca change - Ouch!

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From an essay by British author Angus Wilson in The Seven Deadly Sins by Angus Wilson, Edith Sitwell, Cyril Connolly, Patrick Leigh Fermor, ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Perspective on controversies

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Thinking people always contest with one another as to whether they have all the facts, whether they are interpreting the facts correctly, or...