Liking: Bar Cart! I finally set up my new bar cart last night (info here) and I'm ridiculously pleased with it, despite the dank corner in which it's currently housed. The location will change most li
The greatest spot to read a novel, for example.
I think this month's list is an especially good one. Books, movies & television show ideas for the month of May including a tv show that I'm obsessed with - yet cannot find a single OTHER person who is watching it. Unless you are? For any of my readers who prefer reading material that's longer...Read More
History of block-printed cotton in Georgian & Regency Era Europe. Printed muslins in costume period dramas, fabric museums, reproduction historical textiles
Middle school and teaching blog
I think this month's list is an especially good one. Books, movies & television show ideas for the month of May including a tv show that I'm obsessed with - yet cannot find a single OTHER person who is watching it. Unless you are? For any of my readers who prefer reading material that's longer...Read More
A group from France known as 'Les Objets Volants' performs an incredibly difficult pull off version of Bach's Prelude No. 1 using only boomwhackers... yes, you read that right. Boomwhackers.
“Become a better listener.” It was one of the goals I set for myself at the beginning of this year, but it’s one I think I’ll have a hard time checking off and calling “done.” Because, when it comes to listening well, there isn’t a point of arrival or mastery; instead, I’m learning it’s s
Peder Zane, the book editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, asked 125 top writers to name their favorite book. The lists were all compiled in an edited collection, The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books, and then prefaced by one uber list, “The Top Top Ten.
A pile of good books on Queen Elizabeth and the rest of the British Monarchy for everyone who loved Netflix's new drama, The Crown.
Yoi Takiguchi's long legs, deep voice, and handsome face are the perfect recipe for an attractive guy-until people realize she is, in fact, a girl. Dubbed a “prince" by her peers since childhood, Yoi has all but given up on being seen as anything else. That is, until she bumps into Ichimura-sempai, the school's other prince (who's a he) and gets a taste of what it feels like to be seen for her true self. The story of the two high school princes starts here!
Teaching John Hersey’s journalistic book opens up conversation about both past and present warfare and violence in the world.
