Like to Listen?

If you are hooked on podcasts I humbly suggest you try the New Yorker fiction podcasts. Current New Yorker authors suggest a story and then read it aloud. Following the story is a short discussion about the story. One of my favorite contemporary fiction writers, Tobias Wolff, has already read two stories aloud; I highly recommend both. The stories are, for me, a nice break from the non-fiction that I usually choose.

Blogging

Looking at my first lonely post, it seemed time to write something else. In the interim I had read a humorous quote about all the blogs out there without any readers ( mine!). In searching for the attribution I stumbled upon many unique blogs, including this one:
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/ This blog is a photo gallery of humorously placed quotation marks, and a riot!
Using a few simple clicks I was able to learn so much more about the author. I read another of her posts on Calvinism, found her Dad's blog from a small college in Michigan, read a few entries from the blog of the Communication dept. at UGA where she is a doctoral student.
Although I have not yet located the source quote I had lots of fun, and learned more. So whether there are mounds of readers for each blog does not seem quite so important, but that there be one reader for each blog is all that really matters.

A New Year

Who saves resolutions for the New Year only? I think of them each time my students have completed a nine week class here at Creekland Middle School. What can I do better, how much more can I help them learn? Resolving to change this, streamline that, toss that lesson overboard- each time I find satisfaction in the change process. Hope you find resolutions invigorating, too.