I’m off to see my family so I doubt I will be blogging in the next couple of weeks because: dial-up.
I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. If you’re traveling soon, be safe. Thanks to each and every one of you who have posted comments [...]

She did it! It’s Dr. N from now on. She was amazing during her oral defense and handled herself calmly, gracefully, passionately, completely brilliantly, and of course always with a touch of humor. I could not have been prouder to see her up there doing so well and then to hear the [...]

Is it possible? Is this really the end to my ridiculous idea to spend a week blogging about books? Thank goodness.
I’m a big fan of non-fiction and tend to buy a lot of non-fiction stuff too. Occassionally, I’ll actually read it and finish it. Here’s a short list of some of the more fascinating ones [...]

I just want to say that today will be the last day that N. will be referred to as just N. In about 12 hours from now, she will be referred to as Dr. N. It’s been many years of hard work, perseverance, student salaries, ramen noodles and gut-rot beer.
Seriously though, I couldn’t be any [...]

Literacy Falls for Graduates From College, Testing Finds
When the test was last administered, in 1992, 40 percent of the nation’s college graduates scored at the proficient level, meaning that they were able to read lengthy, complex English texts and draw complicated inferences. But on the 2003 test, only 31 percent of the graduates demonstrated those [...]

We all have our favorite children’s books, right? And if you say it’s Harry Potter, I’ll cut you. I mean, those books from our childhood that we remember fondly. I still have some of my favorites that I pick up once in a while whenever I’m back at my parents’ place. (When I [...]

Ok, so what I meant to say was, go check out Ten Years Too Late and tell Matt Harvey how great he is because we all know that it’s the guy with the guitar that makes the band!
Please disregard the previous post.