by DianneSalerni | Jan 19, 2011 | skiing
Holiday weekends aren’t our favorite times to go skiing, but sometimes that’s just the way it works out – like last weekend. We’ve developed our own strategies for dealing with the crowds and still managing to have a good time.The first rule is to avoid the ski...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 17, 2011 | skiing
Thanks for all the well wishes from everyone who commented on my being sick last week. I am no stranger to sinus infections, but this was a real doozy. I was mostly absent from the blogosphere – I didn’t visit anybody else’s blogs, didn’t respond to most of my...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
A sinus infection has knocked me flat this week, so Gina is stepping in with a guest post, reviewing the newest book in her favorite series: The Worst Case Scenario Junior Edition. Read at your own risk!The WORST-CASE SCENARIO Survival Handbook: GROSS Junior Edition...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 12, 2011 | teaching
Is today’s youth capable of recognizing irony in literature? Monday’s discussion of Huck Finn has prompted me to move on to another little soapbox subject of mine: underestimating young readers.Some people find the language and characters in Huck Finn offensive....
by DianneSalerni | Jan 10, 2011 | teaching
Seeing Huckleberry Finn on the list of banned books is no new thing. It’s been controversial for years and years, thanks to it making us uncomfortable and forcing us to think a little. (Wouldn’t Mark Twain have a laugh about that? I expect he’d write another satire...
