The Tudor Fair Blog
From Draft to Shelf in 6 Weeks
A few weeks ago I was reading a book in the bathtub. This isn’t a new occurrence. Reading in the bathtub is one of my favorite luxuries. What happened during that particular bath, though, was kind of a big deal. I’ve been ruminating for a while on different projects I…
Six Reasons why Studying History is Still Important (a cheat sheet for parents of reluctant students)
This won’t surprise anyone who knows me, but I was a history geek in school. Somewhere around sixth grade I realized that I loved history. In high school I was introduced to early choral music, the great English anthems of Byrd and Tallis, and suddenly my passion for history became…
Raising a bilingual baby (and brushing up on Deutsch as an adult)
Personal share here: My dad is from formerly East Germany – Leipzig – and came to the US when he was a teenager in the 1950’s. By the time I was born, in the 70’s, he had stopped speaking German very much other than when he was having an argument…