The True Story Behind the X in X-Mas When I was a little girl in the 1950’s, I remember one of the stores in our small Georgia town having a sign outside that said “X-MAS SALE.” My mom hated that sign. She pointed it out every time we went shopping making sure we knew how Read More
The Brothers Grimm–More Than Just Fairy Tales I have recently been reading one or two of the original Grimm brothers’ fairy tales every morning with my coffee. A friend loaned me a beautiful hardback edition to which Maurice Sendak contributed his always imaginative and delightful illustrations. The book is called The Juniper Tree and Other Read More
A Grammar Site You Might Like I found this chart on a really neat grammar site–Grammar.net. The main thing offered is a free download for a grammar checker on your computer that operates in conjunction with whatever word processor program you use,
Write Your Name in Other Languages I’ve had a link up on my website at various times for students to write their name in hieroglyphs or in cuneiform, but here’s a place to go to get the script for your name
