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Hi friends, Here\’s a really fun nature story that I got a kick out of last week. My favorite detail is that he hung on to the megabug for a decade before figuring out it was actually a monumental discovery. Incidentally,…

Hello friends, It\’s not been a great week for American educators and librarians (and I highly recommend following Kelly Jensen\’s work at Book Riot if you care about this stuff at all). I can\’t stress enough that at this point it\’s…

Friends, I was dealt a savage, savage emotional blow this week when I learned that one of the preeminent cultural institutions of my childhood will soon be no more. I speak, of course, of the only fifty-year-old indoor roller coaster in the…

Happy Friday, internet friends. I hope you all have something good happening this weekend, even (especially) if it\’s only a few uninterrupted hours to curl up under a blanket with a book and a hot beverage, which is just all I…

Since my last email, we\’ve endured a round of winter weather that very thoroughly knocked my household off course with a full week of kindergarten AMI (alternate methods of instruction, i.e. remote learning, if that particular face of hell isn\’t…

Hello darlings, I’d like to give myself full commit-to-the-bit credit for my pseudonym act, since I literally drove out of town early one morning before work to a rural post office, where I registered for a legally required physical mailing…

New Year, Grudgingly New Me. So, here I am, writing under my new Batman pen name. It’s fine, I guess. On the plus side, I can freely curse on the internet and I don’t have to worry about my bosses…