Reptile fancier, anarchist, feminist. I build online communities and help young people find their path for a living. Die mad or get over yourself.
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My trick to getting people to enjoy reading is to first read TO them, and it doesn't really matter the age, it's about time and excitement. If you're reading them a good story, when you pause, they should be filling in the gap. Between sessions, hand them the book to keep. 1/3
They might not take the bait the first time, but eventually the temptation to read ahead is going to get them. I've done this to adults with pretty good success as well although it's WAY harder to get them to let you read to them. Book selection is also key. 2/3
Okay, here's the problem I'm trying to solve: I have cultivated a fantastic assortment of critters in my back yard with my garden, but when harvest time comes I steal about half their homes. I'd like my garden design to also incorporate permanent areas they can hide.
I've been toying with putting in a few art installations with built in caves. I would ALSO like to tempt my lovely paper wasps to build a home somewhere the other human won't see them because while I regard them as bosom buddies the other guy's gonna murder them.
In canal areas large wakes continue to go on. They splash up against the outside of the canal and start back towards the inside creating rough water, since people seem to be mad at you inside the comments for asking. The water wouldn't calm down for a while.
So the small boat can stop and wait but it's still going to be potentially capsized by the waves from the bigger boat because them stopping isn't going to stop the waves.
I think for a project this winter I might build my yard lizards and frogs a fun PVP pipe installation where there are little nest built in for them to sleep in the rain. I need to sketch out the idea.
Men are so fucking weird on this app. She's getting a tattoo she asked for and paid for this is a transaction. She paid that man to touch her. The fuck does that have to do with a husband unless he also knows how to tattoo and would have been a good artist choice?
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Honestly can't figure out why people don't just read Hitchhiker's Guide to the boys who don't want to read. My kid was yelling at the Vorgons before they even left earth. The trick is a book they can get into emotionally. Maurice and his Educated Rodents also works great.
You guys have almost all of the fucking classics, what's with your bitching? Is Ernest Hemingway not good enough anymore? Do you guys not like John Steinbeck? Is William Shakespeare too girly?
here's a tweet I wrote in response for people looking for books I've gotten boys to read: teapaw.org/LexiconLass/status/211…
You ain't even gotta look that hard. Here's a short list:
1) Terry Pratchett - Sam Vimes books or Rincewind ones
2) Simon Green - Blue Moon Rising (They LOVE it)
3) Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson Series
4) Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl
5) Jim Butcher - Dresden Files
I always thought this was a fallacy: women have to follow male protagonists, so why is it so difficult for a man to follow a female protagonist? No, I’m not asking you to read a romance novel or follow in the steps of Bella from Twilight or Feyre from ACOTAR—but surely there were men who could see themselves in hardened heroines like Katniss from The Hunger Games and Tris from Divergent. And young male readers always have Harry Potter and Percy Jackson too. There ARE books out there: you just have to be willing to look (or branch out to comics/graphic novels/manga too—I know many boys grew up with Goku, Luffy, Naruto, and Ichigo to name a few from manga!).
Too hard to walk down Robert Frost road? Too sober for Edgar Allan Poe? Not romantic enough for Lord Byron? Come on now.
Tomorrow I have to do a lot of furniture moving to arrange everything its final place but I am well pleased with the overall feel of everything now. Particularly the way my rug ties the room together now.
I should have known a master vampire who can walk during the day would not be so easily removed from power.