Surfing the Net with Kids

Dear Reader, Today’s choice of topic coincides with the upcoming anniversary of Sojourner Truth’s death on Nov 26, 1883. The 26th of November is also the anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” in 1965. More …[Continue]

Dear Reader, It’s pumpkin spice season! Although I prefer mine in butternut squash soup, rather than coffee or pie, there is no doubt that fall is here. For more Thanksgiving resources from Surfnetkids, here’s a link for you: https://www.surfnetkids.com/go/3545/thanksgiving-resources/. Now, …[Continue]

Dear Reader, How about that time change? I’ve acclimated more or less, but my cats (we have three!) are going crazy for their dinner and driving me mad in the process. Who rules your house? Around here it is definitely …[Continue]

Dear Reader, It’s fire season again in California. I hope you and yours are safe. Here in coastal San Diego, we are not in immediate danger, nor have we had any related power outages. But we are not out of …[Continue]

Dear Reader, I already shared this link to Surfnetkids Halloween Resources, but since this week’s topic is Halloween Writing Prompts, I decided to share it again. Also, did you know that Harry Houdini died on Halloween, October 31, 1926? Well, …[Continue]

Dear Reader, Boo! It’s almost Halloween! For a list of Surfnetkids Halloween resources (which are too numerous to easily include here), here’s a link: Surfnetkids Halloween Resources. See ya on the Net, Barbara J. Feldman “Surfing the Net with Kids” …[Continue]

Dear Reader, Do you listen to audiobooks? I do. And for years I had a subscription to Audible which gave me one book a month, and a discount on any additional books. But last month I discovered the newly improved …[Continue]

Dear Reader, It’s October, and that means it’s pumpkin spice season, and time for Halloween coloring pages and other Halloween fun. See ya on the Net, Barbara J. Feldman “Surfing the Net with Kids” https://www.surfnetkids.com Statue of Liberty https://www.surfnetkids.com/resources/statue-of-liberty/ Statue …[Continue]

Dear Reader, Fall is here (does it feel like fall in your part of the world?) and the Jewish New Year is just around the corner. L’shana tova to my Jewish readers. Here are a couple of holiday links for …[Continue]

Dear Reader, Last week I spoke about becoming very sensitive to some kinds of light (flickering fluorescent light, for example). I’m now one week into life with my new no-flicker computer monitor with a built-in blue-light filter, and I am …[Continue]

Dear Reader, After all these decades of working at a computer monitor, I am starting to have computer headaches (foggy brain? or eye-strain migraines?) that I believe are related to my recent sensitivity to fluorescent lights and other very-blue light …[Continue]

Dear Reader, This week’s Thomas Edison topic brings to mind a fabulous historical fiction I read a couple of years ago about Edison’s business practices: Last Days of Night by Graham Moore. An excellent read, that challenges some of what …[Continue]