Fancy nails are all the rage these days, and what better way to stay on-trend than with super cute pencil nails? Just follow the steps below! Disclaimer: This is my first attempt at anything crazier than making each nail a different color, so bear with me if my results are a little on the messy […]
Sunspot Drawings: An 885 Year Tradition Steve Padilla is a solar technician. He is a scientist and an astronomer. He is also an artist. Every day, Padilla ascends 150 feet to the top of a solar telescope on Mt. Wilson in Los Angeles, California, to carry on the age-old tradition of drawing sunspots (one of […]
I love lists, and I hope you do too, because you’re about to experience list-ception – that is, a list of lists to keep in your notebook so you always have them handy when you need them. 1. Packing List(s) I do a lot of traveling – to my grandma’s house for a weekend, to […]
The holidays are here again – and I don’t mean Halloween and Thanksgiving! I’m talking about National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. Every year I intend to participate, but the daunting task of writing a whole novel in the month of November gets the better of me and I chicken out. This year, my fantastic […]
These days, it seems like most of the writing I do takes place on a computer – email, essays, memos at work, Facebook messages, even these posts, and the list goes on. It was a comfort to know – and I hope it will be for you too – that some of my favorite authors […]
If you’re in grad school now, thinking about going to grad school, or just want some tips for how to write a really important paper (whatever it may be for), you’ve come to the right place. I just finished my Master’s thesis, and these are the thesis writing tips I learned by trial and error […]
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover – but what if it features some amazing hand-drawn art? I’d like to call your attention to five books that are beautiful to look at in addition to being great reads. Our Top 6 Hand-Drawn Book Covers 1. Harry Potter, cover art by Mary GrandPre […]
When I was little, my favorite activity was reading the Sunday morning comics with my dad. In fact, I’m pretty sure I can thank Peanuts for a large percentage of my literacy. Comics are still an important part of my life – in fact, my dad saves the comics from the Sunday LA Times and mails […]
Why Cursive Handwriting is Still Relevant If you read my Scantron article, you may remember that the increasing use of technology in classrooms was threatening to edge out the old way of test-taking. This week, technology takes on a new opponent in our schools: cursive. As computers become more available in more schools, penmanship in […]
Remember meeting people in college? You’d always ask/get asked the Big Three: 1. Where are you from? 2. What dorm are you in? 3. What’s your major? Nothing said more about you – for better or worse – than the answer to #3. I spent four years proudly (or, sometimes, not so proudly) defining myself […]
