And We're Back

Apologies for the delays in posting.  New year, new curriculum, new students is always more overwhelming than you originally think.  And if it comes down to doing something for the students or reading a new book/writing a post I'm gonna choose the students every time.  Even though I may sometimes prefer to read the book...

All this to say posting will be a bit haphazard for the next little while.  I'm hoping to be back on a (at least weekly) regular posting by Thanksgiving. Now, on to the good stuff.

Roald Dahl's The Witches is another delightful story.  I remember reading this as a child and having just a little bit of nervousness that maybe this wasn't fiction after all.   Maybe there really are witches and I should be suspicious of all women who wear gloves and I need to look verryyy closely to see if their spit is blue.  It's true a real witch has blue saliva and a real witch will always wear gloves. It isn't a scary book-it didn't cause me to panic.  But it was just believable enough to suck you into the story.

Not only that, but it does what all the great stories do-it bleeds over into your real life.  Still to this day whenever I see a woman wearing gloves scratch her head (because all real witches are bald and must wear wigs which make their scalps itch) I wonder, "could it be a witch?"

There's a reason Roald Dahl has been described as, "The worlds #1 Storyteller."  Just read any of his books and you'll get it.  The title is well deserved.

Seeing books in real life...that's kids stuff