by DianneSalerni | Mar 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Authors are full of useless information, which we’ll expound upon at length, given half a chance or a person who won’t run away. Researching Maggie Fox and Elisha Kane turned me into an expert on 19th century spiritualism and Arctic exploration. Research for a...
by DianneSalerni | Mar 10, 2010 | education, testing
Yes, Homer Simpson is an exemplary model of doing something really stupid and realizing his mistake only when it’s too late to fix it. I hope that’s what Diane Ravitch is feeling these days – not that it will do any good for the rest of us.Ravitch served in President...
by DianneSalerni | Mar 6, 2010 | Sourcebooks Fire
A couple months ago, if you’d asked me what a Ning Network was, I probably would have guessed it was a cell phone service. In fact, Ning creates really dandy social networks, and I now belong to two:Teen Fire is a site created by Sourcebooks Fire as a place for YA...
by DianneSalerni | Mar 1, 2010 | Pennsylvania graves, ticking tomb
As a follow-up to my post about The Caged Graves in Catawissa, PA, I thought I’d mention another weird PA grave – a very local one for me. (It’s about 10 minutes from my house, and I grew up knowing this legend.)In the cemetery adjoining the London Tract Meeting House...
by DianneSalerni | Feb 26, 2010 | Fox sisters, spiritualism, Twitter
The Fox sisters had a clever little hoax, but it certainly would never have become a nationwide movement and a religion without the endorsement of some key, influential people. During my research, I was astounded to discover that intelligent, educated, and shrewd...
