Archive for July, 2007

Rough draft of Declaration

In honor of Independence Day, I’m posting this link to Thomas Jefferson’s “rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence. You can download the jpeg, blow it up and see where Jefferson had to re-envision the words of this stirring document. Here is a transcript of the text. For example: “We hold these truths to be [...]

Adding RSS feeds

by Darcy Pattison JMPrince asked how to set up feeds. Here’s my non-technology expert answer: You can use several platforms for reading RSS feeds. I’ve been using Google Reader. For that, you simply go to google.com/reader and follow instructions. There are other RSS feed readers, such as BlogLines (which I used for a long time, [...]

Time to Write

by Darcy Pattison When I first started writing, I had four children at home, and I was home-schooling several of them. I walked around with an ink pen stuck in my jeans’ pocket to remind myself that I needed to find fifteen minutes to write. In fact, I ruined one pair of jeans when the [...]

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