help support literacy in kids

i went to Borders yesterday and picked up the latest issue of Film Maker magazine. it featured a rather unsettling interview with Francis Ford Coppola - he was both brilliant and kind of, i dunno, truculent - but that's not why i'm posting this. at the checkout counter, the clerk asked me me if i wanted to buy a book for their literacy drive. stupid me walked right by the display at the front of the store. the books are specifically targeted to kids 9 years old and under. if i wanted to support it, i could go pick out whatever book i wanted, pay for it, and Borders would donate it on my behalf.

that? coolest thing ever.

i picked a Nancy Drew book, because i remember, with SO MUCH love, how transported i became when reading Carolyn Keene's stories. of course i thought it was even cooler when i found out that Carolyn Keene was actually a pseudonym for multiple authors that contributed stories to the series.

got a few bucks to spare? go to your local Borders and pick up a book for a child. we're all here on lj for love of story, whether it's the telling of small snippets of our lives or the re-weaving of worlds we love, or maybe a little of both. we post to share that love. take it one step further and help a child down the path to that love, and the freedom and power that comes with it. help a kid read.

help support literacy in kids

i went to Borders yesterday and picked up the latest issue of Film Maker magazine. it featured a rather unsettling interview with Francis Ford Coppola - he was both brilliant and kind of, i dunno, truculent - but that's not why i'm posting this. at the checkout counter, the clerk asked me me if i wanted to buy a book for their literacy drive. stupid me walked right by the display at the front of the store. the books are specifically targeted to kids 9 years old and under. if i wanted to support it, i could go pick out whatever book i wanted, pay for it, and Borders would donate it on my behalf.

that? coolest thing ever.

i picked a Nancy Drew book, because i remember, with SO MUCH love, how transported i became when reading Carolyn Keene's stories. of course i thought it was even cooler when i found out that Carolyn Keene was actually a pseudonym for multiple authors that contributed stories to the series.

got a few bucks to spare? go to your local Borders and pick up a book for a child. we're all here on lj for love of story, whether it's the telling of small snippets of our lives or the re-weaving of worlds we love, or maybe a little of both. we post to share that love. take it one step further and help a child down the path to that love, and the freedom and power that comes with it. help a kid read.

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it's always interesting when defectors from actual totalitarian regimes try to show us perspective and gently suggest that we pull our heads out of our asses.

Now we are again at war. It is not the president's war. It is America's war, authorized by 296 House members and 76 senators. I do not intend to join the armchair experts on the Iraq war. I do not know how we should handle this war, and they don't know either. But I do know that if America's political leaders, Democrat and Republican, join together as they did during World War II, America will win. Otherwise, terrorism will win. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi predicted just before being killed: "We fight today in Iraq, tomorrow in the land of the Holy Places, and after there in the West."

h/t to thevaliumsofa

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it's always interesting when defectors from actual totalitarian regimes try to show us perspective and gently suggest that we pull our heads out of our asses.

Now we are again at war. It is not the president's war. It is America's war, authorized by 296 House members and 76 senators. I do not intend to join the armchair experts on the Iraq war. I do not know how we should handle this war, and they don't know either. But I do know that if America's political leaders, Democrat and Republican, join together as they did during World War II, America will win. Otherwise, terrorism will win. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi predicted just before being killed: "We fight today in Iraq, tomorrow in the land of the Holy Places, and after there in the West."

h/t to thevaliumsofa

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i should never see a fic warning for animal transformation.

i mean, not unless we're in HP fandom. but SGA? yeah, not so much.

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i should never see a fic warning for animal transformation.

i mean, not unless we're in HP fandom. but SGA? yeah, not so much.