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12/22/2025
I love it I love it I love it! The feeling of getting one of my new annotated classics is *chef's kiss* perfection. If you, too, want the masterpiece that is Dracula: Annotated Edition, look no further than the links below.
Ebook: https://www.renrevival.com/product-page/dracula-annotated-edition-ebook
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1962076296?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
08/31/2024
Why is classical architecture almost universally beautiful, while anything “modern” is some shapeless monstrosity of concrete, steel, and glass?
I have three theories, all laid out in the latest post on Vocabbett!
Link in bio or at .vocabbett.com/beauty-and-the-assembly-line
04/28/2024
Part 2 tagged as a voice for peace
10/10/2023
My thoughts this morning. I know I’ve posted more than I normally do about this tragedy, but the silence has been deafening and, quite frankly, that freaks me out. Pray for all the innocent people who have lost and will lose their lives in the coming days 💔
03/09/2023
While 'Siena Saint James Is Not a Spy' is fictional, there is a LOT of real in it!
For instance, did you know Israel and Iran were BFFs in the 1960s?
Or that the CIA helped overthrow Iran's democratically-elected leader?
Or (and WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS?) Iran is about two weeks from having the ability to make a nuclear bomb? (acc to Bloomberg & everyone)
With Israeli PM Netanyahu facing a domestic crisis, I'm quite concerned about all this since he's basically singlehandedly been preventing the Iranians from blowing us all to smithereens.
Anyway, get the real history behind 'Siena Saint James Is Not a Spy' today over at Vocabbett!
https://vocabbett.com/the-fact-in-fiction/
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03/01/2023
There are actually TWO versions of this book. Both contain the same phenomenal story, but The Vocabulary Edition also has definitions and explanations at the bottom of each page!
Why? Siena is an art historian, and she's rather fond of big words and esoteric historical references.
You can't go wrong with either one!
Link in bio or at bit.ly/sienavocab 💙🕵️📖
02/05/2023
When I was twelve years old, I decided I wanted to be a spy. Jennifer Garner was getting her teeth pulled out by a sadistic interrogator in Taiwan, and I thought, *this is the life for me.*
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That's the first line of Siena Saint James Is Not a Spy. Want more? The VERY FIRST SNEAK PEEK is available over at Vocabbett!
I love, love, love this book. It's hands-down the best thing I've ever written. At times, I think it's the best thing ever written by anyone.
I hope you love it as much as I do! The regular ebook is already available for pre-order on Amazon. Paperback and vocab versions will be available March 1!
LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU ALL
P.S. If you're a lover of spy shows, you'll find some more fun references throughout this book! : ) I'm looking at you, !
01/17/2023
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we have a major problem. Our education system is an incoherent hodgepodge of asinine theories, and the result is squandering millions of lives of potential.
“If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today…we might well have viewed it as an act of war,” the National Commission on Excellence in Education noted in 1983.
40 years later, little has changed. Untold billions have been spent in an attempt to narrow the achievement gap, but we have little to show for it except a giant bill (to be paid by the very children it failed, ironically).
To illustrate the problem, education journalist Natalie Wexler does a brilliant exercise in The Knowledge Gap. She asks adults to “find the main idea” of the following passage. Go ahead, try it:
"Much depended on…the two overnight batsmen. But this duo perished either side of lunch–the latter a little unfortunate to be adjudged leg-before–and with Andrew Symonds, too, being shown the dreaded finger off an inside edge, the inevitable beckoned, bar the pyrotechnics of Michael Clarke and the ninth wicket. Clarke clinically cut and drove to 10 fours in 134-ball 81, before he stepped out to Kumble to present an easy stumping to Mahendra Singh Dhoni.”
What you just read wasn’t gibberish, but a passage about the beloved British game of cricket. However, if you don’t know anything about cricket, you probably assumed she was inventing phrases to trick you. I certainly did.
This is a perfect exemplification of the problem: schools are obsessed with skills (like reading comprehension) rather than knowledge...
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Rest of the post over at Vocabbett!
https://vocabbett.com/we-have-a-major-problem/
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09/21/2022
Today's to-do list...
1) Workout
2) Finalize "History of the English Language" course (it's actually freaking fascinating)
3) Finalize Vegas trip? Awaiting email with more details...