I so appreciate that smarter people than I can articulate what bothers me about my kids’ public school experience: Do young adult novels have a place in the curriculum? open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…

“I believe that the cult of the particular is the cult of death, for it founds its order upon likeness. It mistakes identity of parts for unity of Being. It destroys the cathedral in order to line up the stones.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras

It is beginning to sound like “Starfighter” will be the “Rogue Squadron” movie we never got and always wanted.

My mantle is ready for Texas Longhorns football! #HookEm

Austinites, y’all seeing the Anderson flag at #collegegameday? #HookEm

The way my living room exploded with joy when that happened.

I mean, if we required reading novels like Frankenstein in school to begin with….

begging everyone to stop asking grok things and visit your local public or university library

I recently watched the first four seasons and I really can’t wait for this!!

The books currently being read by some of our students are To Kill a Mockingbird, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Charlotte‘s Web. Our read aloud is My Side of the Mountain. While this makes me happy, I feel a certain level of anxiety thinking about all of the great books that I

Oh man, this one’s gonna sting.

In the old seal you see a cross with wings. This is the crest of the father of Texas Stephen F Austin. The cross a nod to his family’s historic role in the crusades, the wings a nod to St. Austin. Behind the crest the state capitol, nodding to the city of Austin’s status in

See, that would be interesting.

This is therapeutic. #HookEm

"I shouldn't have to sell my kid's school on reading books. It's like having to sell a doctor on exercise!" This NYC mom's comment about Into Reading is something.

This explains a lot.

I really don't care about anyone's politics right now, today is a dark and sad day for our country. I am sick with grief over the state of things. We must be better than this.

Stop arguing about which tragic thing is the most righteous thing to grieve over. How about, it’s all tragic, and your grief is not more righteous than anyone else’s simply bc you posted about something they didn’t. Jesus, come quickly.

I’m sad and tired. There is too much of everything right now.