Saturday, November 28, 2009

learning to blog

My daughter Lauren is my teacher and tech adviser. Sometimes I feel I am too old a dog to learn new tricks. She is only 51, and an excellent teacher. But I am a slow learner.

I had to name my blog. Ever name I could come up with was "not available." I wanted the name to indicate my interest in theater, but also relate to my age, my past, my limited future. After many attempts, my son Greg, an actor turned math teacher, suggested exuentstageleft, and it was not only available but almost perfect – a stage direction: "everybody off the stage to the left" and by extension, a suggestion of leaving the "world's a stage" in my old age. LEFT seemed most appropriate considering my politics.

Lauren showed me her own blog: www.MathMakesSense.blogspot.com which has bells and whistles including a translator which can translate her text into many different languages, and a gadget that when activated reads her blog to you. Both of htese are free downloads. Isnt the internet wonderful?

In only one day I find myself hooked, line and sinker.

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