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  • Istria, Croatia

    Istria, Croatia

    While we enjoyed everything about our little visit, our greatest unexpected pleasure was the amazing food and wine we encountered in the little corner of Istria we visited.

  • This Year is Different

    This Year is Different

    We need to stop working from the assumption that people who express different opinions than ours are Super Bad Other Guys.

  • Censorship, Selection & Banned Books

    Censorship, Selection & Banned Books

    Banned Books Week kicked off yesterday. I love Banned Books Week. It is a whole week dedicated to awesome stuff like celebrating our freedom to read and highlighting our right to access diverse material of our own choosing at our school and public libraries. And, equally as awesome, it is a reminder of the guarantee…

  • Three Years: Panther Media

    Three Years: Panther Media

    Wrapping up the school year at a very special place… #itsaLIBERTYthing

  • Book Review: The Fire Next Time & Between the World and Me

    Book Review: The Fire Next Time & Between the World and Me

    In short, we…deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation…

  • Summer Road Trip, 2016

    The Vagabond Teen and I hit the road for a summer adventure as our Vagabond Soldier left for his own adventure afar. Here are but a few photos…and after the photos a sampling of our travel playlist. Our take away from the experience: America is amazing and wonderful and quirky. As are Americans!   Road Trip…

  • Book Review: Sapiens

    Book Review: Sapiens

    The Vagabond Teen and I took Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari on the road this summer. We listened to the audio book on road trip days, read some chapters in our down time, and further dove into the subject of humankind, our biology, and our social history by watching videos about early humans and…

  • Book Review & Library Lesson: Tribe

    Book Review & Library Lesson: Tribe

    This book…will serve as a valuable learning tool to emphasize to young writers the importance of maintaining a clear main idea in their writing and of utilizing an organized system of citation to give credence to their work.

  • Book Review: Antifragile

    I tackled Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile slowly–both to reflect on Taleb’s ideas, and because reading this book is like hanging out with a brilliant and obnoxious friend who is best taken in small doses. Nearly a year later, reading the book’s Conclusion, I found Taleb had articulated exactly why I couldn’t stay away from this…

  • Book Review: A Little Life

    This review contains spoilers.   I am still emotionally reeling from A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. It is a brilliant and heartbreaking story that grows darker and more intense as it progresses. A Little Life begins as the story of four men whose friendship first develops in college. The characters are compelling from the…