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Video to bake by
The cleaning and decorating in the Forest in finally done. (Pics tomorrow!) Today I’ll be trying to make a gingerbread house and baking biscotti and other family favorites. And it’s time to make the rice pudding for the Julenisse! While puttering around the kitchen, I’ll be catching up on videos that I’ve bookmarked. Do you [...]
Except That You Really Need to Read This
Remember Risha Mullins, the nationally board certified English teacher who was hounded from her job in Kentucky last year? Risha has written about the entire episode. It will chill your blood. This is why we must continue to speak loudly.
Old Week Ends, New Week Begins
Banned Books Week is over. I wish I could report on the status of Wes Scroggins’ challenge in Republic, MO, but I have not been able to get official notification of what is going on. There is a school board meeting later this month. Perhaps they’ll post something in the minutes. There are a few [...]
The Community That Speaks and Listens
I baked on Monday night. It was a shocking event. When my kids were little, I used to bake a lot, but as life got busy, it slipped off the priority list. But the writer’s group was coming to my house on Tuesday, and I wanted to do something nice. Why did I make banana [...]
Lightning Round
The clock is ticking ever closer to the start of the FORGE book tour, and the available hours to get everything done by then are becoming perilously few. So I am going to turn this blog into a lightning round. Ready? Last week: the Scroggins book banning kerfuffle. Lots of interviews. Said “Scroggins” a [...]
The Power Of Speaking Loudly
When I sat down on Sunday morning to write my blog post about the book banning in Republic, MO, I had no idea what I started. You – my readers – changed the world this week. It started when Paul Hankins, an English teacher in Indiana, started a dedicated Twitter feed, #speakloudly, to spread the [...]
This guy thinks SPEAK is pornography
Remember last September, when the book banners crawled out of their pits of nastiness to try to remove YA literature from classrooms and libraries? It is September again, my friends. Wesley Scroggins is an associate professor of management at Missouri State University. He was also a speaker at Reclaiming Missouri for Christ, a recent seminar [...]
Video Sunday
I’m thinking of making Sunday into video day on my blog. What do you think?Here’s a video that was sent to me by Tony, who is a future English teacher (student teaching this fall) in Pennsylvania. He wrote this song based on SPEAK and the stories of some friends of his who were raped.If you [...]
Batting Monday Clean-up
You know the sound a car engine makes at the RPMs are climbing and you are preparing to shift into the next gear?Make that sound in your mind right now.I’m getting ready to shift gears and go full throttle on a number of projects.Before I can do that, though, I have to clean off a couple [...]
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