School is in again, and I will be writing for classes from time to time. I am taking History prior to 1500 and “Design, Perception, and Audience” this winter term. The history class, it turns out, is really a cultural anthropology class, disappointing since I have already taken that class at a different school. But… Read More Fear and Loathing in Death
I’ve been called a Renaissance woman, a Heinlein girl, and asked many times how I can reconcile my artistic tendencies with a passion for science. The reality is that I grew up with no barriers, no one telling me ‘you can’t do that because you’re a girl.’ I took to heart early, Heinlein’s words that… Read More Pursuit of Polymath
I found a really interesting article floating around the other day, and stopped to read it. It’s not that I’m so much interested in the buffalo, as I was reminded of what people don’t know about them. When I wrote Pixie Noir and sent it to beta readers, one of them wrote back a note… Read More We’ve all been Buffaloed
This was a final essay for a literature and composition class. Word Perfect Etymology has always been an interest of mine, taking apart a word to see how it works, then putting it back together, and letting it go again, part of a sentence and working beautifully to illustrate my point. Another level of… Read More Blast from the Past: Etymology
Life is a Battleground I found myself walking across campus yesterday and wondering what I was doing there. It’s not that I feel like I don’t belong, although I have days like that, too. It’s more that I was feeling sick, stupid, and used up. I’m too old for this. I ought to have done… Read More Taking Counsel
Dave Freer has an excellent article over at the Mad Genius Club today, and I wanted to share a bit of it – I encourage you to go over there and read the rest, if you like, but like him, I raise an eyebrow (maybe both) at someone who states numbers with no data to… Read More On Women and Writing, and Science
It occurs to me that when I comment or otherwise chime in on other’s blogs these days, there may be some confusion when you check me out and find a farm blog (or these days, slice of life family blog). I also write, and that blog is here: http://cedarwrites.wordpress.com. My name really is Cedar, that’s not… Read More The Other Blog
Here on the Farm we have not been homeschooling the children in the new sense of the word. That is, not sending them to public schools, but teaching them wholly at home, as I was, and my sisters with me. We have, however, and will always, teach the children at home. We encourage them to… Read More Education and the Farm