Jane Haddam

I know–no post, or two or three in a day.  What can I say? Anyway, the main one is Parental Units, but I wanted to make note of the fact that I have seen Shadia Drury’s latest column–if you go to the Free Inquiry website, they still have the old issue up, unfortunately– Anyway, I’ve…

Well, in the middle of all this, I’ve started to read a book–The Servile Mind, by Kenneth Minogue–that speaks to a lot of it, but before I get to the book, I want to get to the parents. Lymaree said that kids don’t learn the kinds of things I’m talking about in school, they learn…

I’m having one of those, you know, moments. So I’ll just put in a couple of things, and go drink tea. First, I didn’t say, yesterday, that students are not influenced by what they read. I said they weren’t being influenced by what they haven’t read. The rise of modernism in literature may or may…

So, I keep running into weird things that make it hard for me to post, which is interesting in itself.  The latest is a pulled muscle in my top left thigh, which I apparently did while falling off the porch. Long story. Really long story. The thing is that it doesn’t hurt when I’m sitting…

So, for the past couple of days I’ve been reading through G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy.  I suppose that partially explains the God post of the day before yesterday, although what it really brings to mind to me is the fact that I like well written prose, period.  I don’t really care what it says.  The…

I know, I know. Second post of the day. But this site http://www.readfaster.com/culturalliteracy/ is a lot of fun.

  I’ve been walking around this post all morning, not sure how to get it started–and to tell the truth, I still don’t know.  I can’t really think of anything in the way of a lead in that makes sense, and what I can think of feels sort of abrupt. Let me try this is…

Well, I woke up to find Leslie Nielson died–so the day hasn’t started out as well as it could have. And I’ll just note, re Cheryl’s comment, that I never took up space in my journals trying to figure out the “root causes” of why I was so awful.  I just went on and on…

When I was in graduate school and going through a period where I couldn’t write anything–I do not go through periods like that often, and they don’t usually last long–I decided to keep a journal. Keeping a journal is the kind of thing writing teachers are always suggesting you do.  Writing magazines like that kind…

So, you know, that was nice.  We still have a ton of food.  That’s nice, too, because it means we don’t cook anything serious for a day or two. And as most of you know, I’ve been spending a lot of time rereading all the Agatha Christie in existence.  Or that I’m interested in, which…