A day to do something to honor the victims of the massacre at Virginia Tech and their families is an idea I can get behind. A day to do something and post about it on your blog, likewise.
A day of blog silence? Not so much.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. [...]
“No, Tay,” Acorn tells his cousin. “Turtles can’t swim.”
My nephew and I share an amused glance as we fill a bucket with a few inches of water and add a large rock. Minutes later, Acorn watches with delight as our newfound turtle dives beneath a ledge of the rock, then swims around it [...]
Following up on Busy Mom’s lead, I present an often-confused pair of related verbs: “lie” versus “lay.” I find that even people whose use of the language is otherwise impeccable can confuse these at times.
Remember these two points:
“Lie” is not what you do to something, it’s simply something that you do.
“Lay” is not a [...]
Acorn and I were reading one of his simplest books last night, a book about colors. Each page focuses on one color, and has about two pictures to illustrate that color. The page for green has a leaf and a frog.
“Do you know what frogs eat?” I asked Acorn, desperate to add some [...]
Still caught up in other writing projects, plus things are busy at work. While you wait (with bated breath, no doubt) for my ever-so-scintillating words, here are some other things that might be worth reading.
Seriously. There are only about thirteen of you. I don’t want any of you turning blue.
If you need some ideas for [...]