WWW Wednesdays

What is WWW Wednesday? It is a thing from Should Be Reading that asks the following questions.  Post your answers in the comments (or a link to your blog post containing the answers). • What are you currently reading? Right now I’m about to finish up The Magician King by Lev Grossman.  It is the sequel […]

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20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare

20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare Thank you, Mental Floss.  I’m feeling a bit…vindicated this afternoon.  Have you ever just come across a situation that the common vernacular didn’t cover?  So did Shakespeare.  His solution…make up a word that conveyed what he wanted.  How much poorer would the English language have been if Shakespeare […]

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What’s the problem with pink and princess? The marketing, not the moms.

Originally posted on Dr. Rebecca Hains:
This week, New York and Slate published pieces asking why so many moms have a problem with pink and with princesses. “What’s the problem with pink, anyway?” griped Yael Kohen in New York. Then, building upon Kohen’s piece, Slate senior editor Allison Benedikt demanded: “What is it with you moms of girls? I have never…

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Let’s Read Poetry

Apparently this is National Poetry Month, I had no idea until this morning. I love poetry.  This must be something that runs in the family.  My Grandma Joye was a poet, and my mother routinely tries to abscond with my Norton’s Anthology of Poetry (Don’t worry, I know where to find it.)  There’s just something […]

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