Comments on: Thoughts While Listening to Hail Stones Falling on a Tin Roof http://www.norasawyer.com/2009/03/thoughts-while-listening-to-hail-stones-falling-on-a-tin-roof/ I'm a Magpie Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:10:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tom http://www.norasawyer.com/2009/03/thoughts-while-listening-to-hail-stones-falling-on-a-tin-roof/comment-page-1/#comment-675 tom Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:34:00 +0000 http://bathtubadventurer.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/thoughts-while-listening-to-hail-stones-falling-on-a-tin-roof/#comment-675 Yes, residual memories of dead routines are always problematic. Even worse: the dreams. For ten (or perhaps twenty?) years after escaping an unpleasant ROTC experience in the 1950s, dream experiences of anxiety over not having one's shoes and buttons properly polished (aargh!).<br/><br/>Happily one has so far escaped New College nightmares almost entirely. Perhaps this is because they occurred so vividly in "real life"!<br/>(This must mean the reality of ROTC was nowhere near as bad as the reality of NC.)<br/><br/>(Let us not speak of those hailstorms, lest they return in one minute...) Yes, residual memories of dead routines are always problematic. Even worse: the dreams. For ten (or perhaps twenty?) years after escaping an unpleasant ROTC experience in the 1950s, dream experiences of anxiety over not having one’s shoes and buttons properly polished (aargh!).

Happily one has so far escaped New College nightmares almost entirely. Perhaps this is because they occurred so vividly in “real life”!
(This must mean the reality of ROTC was nowhere near as bad as the reality of NC.)

(Let us not speak of those hailstorms, lest they return in one minute…)

]]> By: momeester http://www.norasawyer.com/2009/03/thoughts-while-listening-to-hail-stones-falling-on-a-tin-roof/comment-page-1/#comment-674 momeester Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:26:00 +0000 http://bathtubadventurer.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/thoughts-while-listening-to-hail-stones-falling-on-a-tin-roof/#comment-674 Stick with Steinmetz or Caroline Hershell. One hole in children's literature right now is readable biography. There are lots of "servicable for reports" and picture book biographies, but kids are looking for chapter books of just over 100 pages. Landmark did a great series back in the 50,s but they were "flawed" by reconstructed conversations. Today's standard is for kid bio to be just as accurate as adult. I have no problem with accurate, but kids need something that makes the person interesting. So there, there is a challenge for you. Stick with Steinmetz or Caroline Hershell. One hole in children’s literature right now is readable biography. There are lots of “servicable for reports” and picture book biographies, but kids are looking for chapter books of just over 100 pages. Landmark did a great series back in the 50,s but they were “flawed” by reconstructed conversations. Today’s standard is for kid bio to be just as accurate as adult. I have no problem with accurate, but kids need something that makes the person interesting. So there, there is a challenge for you.

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