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The most foolish thing I could think of for the occasion.

I’ve been a little slow on the uptake, but I’m really coming around to AI. It’s here. It’s the future. Better to embrace it than fall behind.

Can’t beat the April Fools edition of the campus newspaper.

Ahh! Yay yay yay!

That would be a great paper!

If you want to be cranky (or be cranky about the cranks!) with Abigail and me, get in touch!

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Ooh, thank you! I’ll check it out.

I literally just started and Ma is like “but it’s warm here and winter is coming?” and he’s like “nope, leaving tomorrow.” 😭

I saw that there’s a PBS doc that I think gets into this? Have you seen/do you recommend?

Amazing!

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I just watched the trailer for the PBS doc about what I think you’re alluding to, and I’m on the edge of my seat!

I watched the show but somehow missed reading the Little House books as a kid. 8yo is doing a project on Laura Ingalls Wilder, and I’m agog. These were written for in the 1930s? She lived until the late 1950s?! Little House on the Prairie isn’t the first book?!?!

Graffito on a page in a copy of Tristram Shandy: a line drawing in profile of Slawkenbergius, recognizable because of his large nose.

Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel

The Woman Who Theorized Color: An Introduction to Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808) 'I shall only say that those ladies who study the rules of the art, secure a never-ceasing source of pleasure to themselves, which is always at their own command.... while those who pursue the practic...

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5yo dressed in rainbow colors, holding a book with a color wheel

5yo has been reading her c18 it-narratives and has chosen to be “the color wheel” for character day.

No, I understood. I agree!

Thanks for sending! No, I’d truly never heard of it. Now I’m seeing it everywhere!

Both recommended. That one by Patricia Williams and Replaceable You by Mary Roach. (Very different, both excellent.)

I’m reading two books right now that reference the Miracle of the Black Leg, which I’d never heard of before. Two! And only one of them is called The Miracle of the Black Leg.

Feels pretty magical to manage to get a kid to read this book before “Dickon” is a particularly funny name.

Report on today’s meeting: we decided that context clues point to Mary really liking gardens. It’s going to be huge when she actually finds the secret garden.

Highly recommend listing to Mary Roach read her own audiobooks if only for the moments when she cracks herself up and has to pause. Writer goals.

I was Mrs. Medlock in the school play!

They read at home and discuss. A leader has emerged (she proposed it). There are now copycat groups! And they’ve already identified their next title. (The Wild Robot.)

I will share!

No, The Secret Garden!

8yo is preparing discussion questions for the first meeting. Question one: “Do you think cholera could spread further and that we could get it?”

They are meeting every day at lunch and recess. Though we’ve talked about a special meeting at our house when they’re done to watch the movie and eat “featured foods.”