On February 14, 2025, the Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Education sent a Dear Colleague Letter that felt more like a gut punch than a Valentine’s Day message. In it, the letter threatened to withdraw federal funds … Continue reading →
Happy Sunday! Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at ReaderBuzz. Check out her post and the links to see what other bloggers have been up to in the last week. How’s the weather? Yesterday, I learned the word “graupel.” That’s … Continue reading →
Six in Six is a celebration of the half-way point of the reading year hosted by The Book Jotter. This is my first time participating, but Six in Six is marking its 10th anniversary! Thanks to Marianne of the Let’s … Continue reading →
I’m a sporadic participant in the annual A to Z Challenge where bloggers pledge to publish 26 posts in April, exploring a particular theme. This year, I’m participating because I found a way to make it fit with my novel-writing. … Continue reading →
It’s been a while since I’ve signed up for any reading challenges. When I did sign up for reading challenges, I did it in late December or early January. But I just decided that a couple of challenges would help … Continue reading →
This is my second run at the A to Z Challenge — 26 blog posts in a month, one for each letter of the alphabet. In 2018, I published an A to Z of British and Ireland posts. That was fun! … Continue reading →
The Spring 2018 Bloggiesta, a week-long extravaganza of tackling blog to-do lists, ended yesterday. I logged some of my activities as I went along. My Readers’ Workout post last week mentioned my backups, updates, and some initial brainstorming for the … Continue reading →
Thanks to the Juggling Life mini-challenge at Cover2CoverBlog, I learned about the BlogAhead challenge — a challenge to schedule ahead 14 posts during the period from March 27 to April 7. That’s ideal for me to make the A to … Continue reading →
Today, I completed a mini-challenge for Bloggiesta. Labels, Categories, and Tags. Oh my! is a challenged devised by Berls of Because Reading is Better Than Real Life. The biggest change I made was to develop a new category called “Link … Continue reading →
I’ve always had difficulty setting priorities. Every idea seems equally good and every task equally urgent. My daily to-do lists routinely have three days worth of activities on them. I’ve been doing better in the last year or so since … Continue reading →