Well, it's November. My 31 Days series is over (From Aesop to Zion). The insanity of trick or treat (or alternate activities) is over. There's a scant covering of snow on my deck. (Ah, Winter. So that's how you're going to play it.) My kids are on a sugar fueled creative spree this morning (watercolor paints, drawing, etc.) and I'm wishing I had half their energy (OK, I wish that a lot.)
That's life on November 1 for me. Now for the links!

Learning

• The Disturbing Transformation of Kindergarten by Wendy Lecker for the Stamford Advocate.

{Writing}

• Write Better and Faster with One Simple Tip by Melissa Culbertson at Blog Clarity.
• Writers: Passive Verbs are Not Always Bad from Trevin Wax discussing a book by Steven Pinker. (Turns out Strunk & White just made up some of their rules while contradicting themselves).

Living

• My Son's First Brush with Racism by Helen Lee.
• Don't Die with Dignity; Die with Grace by Gracy Olmstead. A lovely post and one that points out, as needs pointing out so often in our time: sometimes things - even personal things like our own deaths - are not all about us.
• Turning Drudgery Into the Divine by Kate Battistelli at The Better Mom.
• Beautiful Beyond Our Control by Lore Ferguson.

Loving

{Deep Thoughts}

• Is the Field of Psychology Biased Against Republicans? by Maria Konnikova for The New Yorker. Long, but interesting. (Even if you're not a Republican)
• It's Columbus Day. Let's Talk About Geography (And Ebola) by Kim Yi Dionne and Laura Seay for The Washington Post. Turns out that knowing some actual geography can help prevent hysteria. Who knew? (She said, sarcastically. Of course Geography matters. Now you have a reason for making your kids learn all those countries and capitals.)
• Ladies, It's Time to Stop Falling in Love with Vampires by Rachel Lu for The Federalist.
• One Trait that Set Apart the Earliest Christians by Michael J. Kruger for TGC.

{Just for Fun}

• Goofus and Gallant on Government by Jon Gabriel for Ricochet. Sorry to get political on you, but these did actually make me laugh (especially the last one).
• Ugbrooke Park: Saving a Historic English Country House from Two Nerdy History Girls. (Confession: it bugs me that this isn't titled "Saving an Historic English Country House")
• The Definitive Ranking of the Best Mr. Darcy Ever from Glamour. (Spoiler: duh.)
• Favorite site for a laugh these days: It's Like They Know Us. (See this one and this one, for example.)

What did you read online this week?

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