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   Ho everyone! (“Ho” is slang for “hello” at the Battle School in Ender’s Game.)
   
   It’s been a crazy week and I’ve gotten a lot of reading done, even though I haven’t finished a book. I’m just reading so many at one time and I’ve been reading a lot of educational stuff, too. My students have also been reading a lot since Monday. A few of them have ( Read more... )

"Laurie Garvey hadn't been raised to believe in the Rapture. She hadn't been raised to believe in much of anything, except the foolishness of belief itself. We're agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don't know if there's a God, ( Read more... )