The Stingrays Are Angry...

It sounds like the stingrays have organized. I understand the Steve Irwin hit, but I wonder what poor James Bertakis did to them? Maybe he the head of a secret anti-stingray organization. Don't those stingrays know that violence is never the answer? They should give civil disobedience a try; they're only making a bad name for themselves with all this stabbing-in-the-heart business.

The Cursive Wars

Proof that what I knew at six is true: cursive makes you smarter. In first grade, I was obsessed with the cursive in the back of the spelling book. It was so tantalizing--and so cruel! The teacher told me we wouldn't be allowed to learn cursive until the end of second grade. So, of course, I taught myself. And then I taught BI'75 (age 5). BI'75 then got in trouble with her kindergarten teacher for not printing. She maintains that her "fucked up handwriting" (her description, not mine) is my fault for teaching her too young. I maintain that people who know cursive are smarter and she was lucky I imparted my some of my vast wisdom to her.

P.S. I have lovely handwriting.