Jane Haddam

Just in case you’re all wondering, I haven’t disappeared from real life, and I’m not up to my neck in trouble.  It’s just that I’m having really odd computer problems. Or maybe not computer problems.  Maybe AOL problems.  And since AOL dial up is my only connection at home, if that isn’t working properly, then…

So, I was looking over the comments last night, and there are just a few things… The first is that I don’t think it’s quite fair to saddle Anne Perry with whatever is going on on  modern university campuses, since she never went to university.  However it is Perry decided on her moral and political…

I’ve been having one of those days that are kind of like emotional whiplash–first good, then bad, then good, then… And all of this, of course, accompanied by the kind of weather that makes you think that if God exists, He must be schizophrenic. The good was that the last unresolved problem with Greg’s surgeries…

Okay.  I slept in.  I made it all the way to six thirty. My first instinct here is to start nitpicking, because, well, because I’m me.  I nitpick.  And in nitpicking, I want to say that I never told anybody, Robert included, that people shouldn’t be able to major in history without taking “dance.”  Specifically…

I disappear for a week, then I post twice in one day, then… But this http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/05/10/the_education_mantra is Thomas Sowell’s column on Townhall this morning. I’d be interested in reactions…

Okay, I wasn’t intending to write a post today, or at least not this early in the morning.  That’s because I’m sitting in a classroom that has a very good Internet connection, but that’s about all.  The teacher’s desk is very high and meant to be used with one of those chairs that can have…

And thanks to Robert for telling me how to spell it. Okay, let’s start here:  I had a sister in law, dead now, who was profoundly Catholic, and she sent me books.  I’ve read most of them over the years, but I had another one sitting on my coffee table for about a year and…

So here we are, on Saturday of Mother’s Day week-end, which is always a rather bad time.  I have a terrible feeling that my sons’ idea of what would be the best thing to do for me tomorrow involves multiple DVDs of Marvel superheroes in live action car chases ending in explosions. In the meantime,…

Actually, once more with no time, really. Three things. First, I agree with Mike–I’ve never met a child with ADHD.  What I have met, however, is unmedicated children who were later “diagnosed” with ADHD and put on Ritalin.  None of them exhibited the forms of behavior Mike, Robert and Mique have indicated.  Which makes me…

I don’t usually sign in on Mondays, but there were a couple of things overnight, and I’ve got just a few minutes. 1)Lymaree’s problem can be solved if we stop thinking in modern ideas of “sexual orientation” as a singular sort of thing.  To the extent that any sexual orientation is hardwired, any such orientation…