After half a year of reading her blog online every few days, I was delighted today to see 16 year-old Jessica Watson of Australia complete her solo, unassisted, round-the-world sail. (Some video news coverage can be found here.) It's been an amazing adventure to follow along, and I can remember the nieces being intrigued by it, watching some of ( Read more... )

I've been kind of scattered this week, I suppose. I haven't been able to concentrate very easily, other than on going over my preps for teaching and re-reading the relevant material. I got a bit bogged down in some grading because many my students seemed to have gotten flighty while I was in Canada and decided to start interpreting their writing ( Read more... )