Month: September 2019

Grammar

Grammar

I think of myself as a reasonably intelligent human being.  But helping my ten-year-old with his homework is challenging that belief. The other day I had to look up the difference between complex and compound sentences.  I am, apparently, not smarter than a 5th grader. Reading about grammar got me thinking about semicolons, commas, periods […]

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Shifting Seasons

Shifting Seasons

  The weather is teasing us.  We’ve had crisp, cool days and hot, humid days.  It’s kind of summer and kind of fall, like the season is trying to shift, trying to slide into what’s next, but it hasn’t clicked over quite yet. But our schedule has clicked over.  We are well into the school […]

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