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Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
It’s been quite the week. My three youngest kids were home sick Monday and Tuesday, went to school Wednesday, then the youngest two started vomiting again Wednesday evening and one of them ended up staying home yesterday, causing me to use a sick day. They all seem fine now … but I think I’m coming…
So, you think you want to become a werewolf. Have you really thought this through? Really? Here are 10 things you might want to consider.
When I switched over to WordPress last summer, my intention was to have fresh content on my main Web presence much more often than I was doing before, when updates meant creating a new HTML page. I haven’t been so good at that, although I do update my LiveJournal pretty often. So, I’m going to…
Today I got approval on my purchase order to buy 30 copies of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist for use in my AP Literature and Composition class. I wondered if there’d be a problem getting it approved, but there were no questions. I really didn’t expect to be able to get 30 copies, but our librarian got…
That Carrie Jones gal done went and tagged me in a meme. I’m not going to paste in the book covers like she did. I’m lazy. Which five book characters are you most like (including, if you want, one of your own)?1. Samwise from The Lord of the Rings. An adventure would be fun, but I’d…
We been doin’ The Grapes of Wrath in my AP classes. Man, I shore do love this book. What’s more, the kids, they seem to like it purty well, too. It’s got ever’thing a teacher can hope for. Symbolism, allusion, multiple themes, dialect, political messages, controversy, ever’thing. And I get to let my proper grammar…
Score! One of my hardest-working students came to me the other day wanting help on a speech she’s going to make at this year’s senior assembly. I suggested the above quote from the master, Jim Steinman, and she liked it. We worked up a pretty good speech about not accepting mediocrity and taking advantage of…
I got an e-mail from Roy at Bad Moon Books today, letting me know that Little Graveyard on the Prairie has shipped from the printer. He’ll have copies on Feb. 18 and will be shipping them out to customers the next day. Have you ordered yours? It isn’t too late to get one of these…
I got an e-mail from Roy at Bad Moon Books today, letting me know that Little Graveyard on the Prairie has shipped from the printer. He’ll have copies on Feb. 18 and will be shipping them out to customers the next day. Have you ordered yours? It isn’t too late to get one of these…
Steven E. Wedel 