Inspired by Nathaniel Bowditch, who, according to the Newbery Award book I read aloud to my kids years ago, taught himself various languages by reading the Bible, I decided to try reading books in French and Spanish as a way to improve my language skills, at least the reading and writing parts. I tried reading [...]
This old book, 1943, appeared on my bookshelf. No one remembers where it came from. It is out of print and nothing by this author is listed in the Santa Clara County library system, either. A real shame because it is a wonderful book! (Used copies are available though.) Anna and Jezza are sisters, and [...]
One of the youth counselors and the youth pastor at my church arranged for QPR training this morning. Happily my 15 year old daughter readily agreed to go with me, thus ensuring that I did not change my mind at the last minute and decide to waste away a Saturday morning on coffee and newspaper [...]
In order to be a better resource for high school kids wanting to learn to program, I’m working my way through the BlueJ book, Objects First. I picked it up yesterday after ignoring it for a while, and some of the exercises in it prompted me to go back to my scenario in Greenfoot and [...]
