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I don't update this blog anymore, although I still read and welcome and respond to comments. My new blog, which doesn't have any puz...

If only dead people understand hexadecimal, how many people understand hexadecimal?

As Jim Trelease says in The Read-Aloud Handbook , one of Oprah Winfrey's great contributions to a renewed interest in reading in the Un...

Note: I originally posted this a year ago and then deleted it. It's worth re-posting, I think. Funny story. It involves homophones. Toda...

This will appear in tomorrow's newspapers in Vancouver BC, Victoria BC, and Halifax NS. Hanington, Margot (Wallace) Margot Hanington pas...

Two boasts about my relations' recent press: My sister, Kyla Hanington , on CBC's The Sunday Edition. Listen to her amazing essay, M...

Have you seen this game by Zefrank? Cute.

My nearly-6-year-old son loves the A-word. My fault, really, for teaching him and his sister Miss Susie Had a Steamboat : Miss Susie had a s...