Deeply curious about the new Wuthering Heights adaptation because over the course of many years and many tries, friendly AND scholarly discussions: The Brontes Are Not For Me ™️ I know this. And yet…

Sunshine has confused me into Spring Cleaning mode. I know it is not yet Spring, and yet: curtains down and laundered, bathroom scrubbed, dusting achieved, cupboards reorganized. And it’s just past noon!

A 3 coffee morning

All schools here are CLOSED. NO buses are running anywhere. The world may be on 🔥 but here we are enveloped by ❄️

Seems promising? (Do not, under any circumstances—Anyone—offer a reason why it might not be.)

Watching the Mr. Dressup doc on CBCGem before it disappears and this was an A+++ choice in my part

For the first time in (I would guess) a decade, I am not going to set a reading goal for 2026. I’m tired of quantifying. I’m tired of trying to meet and surpass arbitrary expectations. I will continue to log what I read, but I will—perhaps—read more organically for myself.

Phenomenal story Merry Christmas, indeed! 🎄

🎄Merry Christmas!🎄 Wishing you and yours peace, comfort and contentment over the next few days. Disconnecting from *All Of This* for the holiday.

Every once in a very blue moon the fact that 🇨🇦 media is not always simulcast comes in very handy. Very handy indeed. Nicely done GlobalTV

I am not enjoying One Battle After Another. Am I missing something? 20 minutes in and I’m ready to turn it off and walk away.

*sigh* w e a t h e r

🎄🎄🎄CHRISTMAS VACATION!!!! 🎄🎄🎄

Due to snow ❄️ melt and sudden 🧊 freeze there are no school buses running on this, the last day of school before Christmas break 🎅🎄

First memory I had of Anthony Geary on #GH #classic #90s #daytime #soaps youtu.be/E0k44uFdGtg

We’ve been reading stories about 🐊 crocodiles (an inadvertent theme) Started with Under the Great Plum Tree by Sufiya Ahmed & Reza Dalvand (India), then The Hunterman and the Crocodile by Baba Wagué Diakité (Mali) & concluding with I, Crocodile by Fred Marcellino (French Empire) Solid lessons all

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Just… …t i r e d

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

So, EQAO results… I can tell you without the fancy inquiry committee that the way they’re requiring math be taught—that the scope of curriculum—is not working. They need to fundamentally change the curriculum expectations AND allow teachers to teach what works. Now: put the $$$ back into schools.

Fire, tree, twinkle lights, candles and the final Downton movie.

Faery Realms are one of today’s preoccupations so, as we march merrily along into the Yuletide season when some invite those wretched Surveillance Elves into their homes, may I simply opine: put a bit of cold iron in your pocket or mount that horseshoe at your door above the festive wreath.

New MMI piece: We look at the 3.5 million people in Canada who live in a home that is too small to meet their needs, and how a mismanaged push by governments and urban planners towards densification is at odds with the human right to housing. Read here: www.missingmiddleini...

🇨🇦 can we do this poll here? I’m now very curious.

We have a 100+ year old book that is a photographic history of WWI. Students are mesmerized by it. How did they take the photos? Could they zoom? Is that a cannon? Are those *real* dead people? Why isn’t anything in colour? Look at the moustaches!!! We read the captions & learn together.

Being a terminally nonsportsball person, I had to ask a group of kids today to clarify what the #Bluejays player’s name was that I kept hearing. Me: His name *isn’t* Boba Fett, right?

There are lots of things in education world that seem to be up for discussion. Those that get traction usually astonish me because they are by no means universal, but the people experiencing them think that they are. 1 Ministry: 72 Boards And each one different www.ontario.ca/page/educati...

This. Whole. Thread. 🧵

Watch the Jane Goodall doc. Just watch it. Whole-hearted recommendation from me.

Am I watching the #LilithFair doc? Yes. Am I crying? Also yes.

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I enjoyed a bagel so delectably fine on Friday that I haven’t stopped thinking about it. Lamentably, the bakery is closed on Mondays. But Tuesday before work I am grabbing a half dozen.

Today at recess a gr7 student said to me: “6 7 am I right?” Me: I would love for you to write me a 67 word paper in 6-7 minutes explaining whether or not you are. Thanks for volunteering! 😁 Gr7 Bros:

And, the rain falls

So is he…Willy? Jamie’s deceased elder brother? Who gave him the carved snake?

Greg Wise! You’re in both #Buccaneers His dance with the Dowager Duchess! Adorable

I was absolutely certain that baby would be a [redacted] and now despite 25 years+ of notes on time travel and family genealogies I am without a theory as to who that baby is. Had it been a [redacted] I would have plenty—and good ones! But now 🤷🏼‍♀️ #OutlanderBOMB

This is not secularism, this is anti-religion and anti-faith and it makes my blood boil.

Canadian author whose work was used without permission to train META? #CanLit Class action link here www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

Friends, I adore it.

The _Great_Authors_ are those whose works are great to YOU. Read what you like: what engages you, what informs you, what inspires you. ❤️📚

I had to read The Hobbit in high school and this was precisely why I couldn’t get into Tolkien as a whole. Look—there’s lots to enjoy about “classics” if you organically find them. But we aren’t conditioned anymore to walk into a bookshop/library and just BROWSE.

I started off by reading books I found in bookstores that sounded cool. Why would you ever want to do anything different? It's not sci-fi class. It's just reading. Read books. Any books. Literally any book you want to read. What a wild idea.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

We all know we shouldn’t judge books by their covers, however, I personally do not like or respond with engagement to current book cover trends. Browsing library Libby shelves and just turned off by all of the pastel-melon cartoons and black-cover florals with stark shimmery 3-wore fonts.

The focus on "AI Literacy" is particularly baffling, because guess what: it's just literacy! You can't use LLMs reliably unless you know what you're talking about. And the best way to actually learn something is to—you guess it—do your own work instead of having Chat-GPT do it for you.

Summer lunch delight: grilled cheese sandwich with mango-chili chutney dip 🤤

#SummerReading The Ministry of Time by Kailene Bradley

Have planted fleurs on my balcony and I am finally summering.

Last day of school