As I prepare for another school year with my son, I have two timely posts on this theme:

Click over to my review blog to read my latest book review from one of my favorite authors, Phillip Done. Phil is a third-grade teacher, and his newest book was just published, "Close Encounters of the Third Grade Kind- Thoughts on Teacherhood" is required reading for the start of this new school year.

Also check out my latest New Jersey Moms post, "The Lost Art of Handwriting", where I pine over the potential extinction of handwriting in today's cyber-charged world. I may be a blogger and technology geek in my day job, but I often love to abandon my keyboard for a pen and paper. Is handwriting going the way of the dinosaur?
