The Space trilogy by C.S. Lewis. I’ve read them before; a long time ago and had forgotten how much I like them. I’m through Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. I really love Perelandra, but I was talking to a friend who said he prefers Out of the Silent Planet by a longshot over [...]
Archive for June, 2008
18 Jun
a story in a story in a story
My 11 year old son likes to imagine. Sometimes he writes down what he imagines, and sometimes he draws it and other times he just thinks up the idea. He came up with the start of a story. It was a great idea that I haven’t been able to forget. I got involved in adding to it, tacking on details [...]
5 Jun
Playing games in the gym
Tonight was the first time I’ve been in the same room with them since it the problems happened. Admittedly, it was a gym, which is a pretty big room but it’s an elemntary school gym which isn’t big enough to play the avoidance game effectively. And even thought the problems are yesterday’s news at the school, [...]
3 Jun
Verbal Petri dish
Thanks to marko for finding this amazing little web gadget-visuwords.
Ok, yeah, it’s only worth playing with if you happen to like words (a lot). Type in a word. I tried “great” which wasn’t the best first choice, so try something else. Then it springs into action with all these scientific looking nodes with branches off of each [...]
