Hey guys! If you missed the announcement somehow, I’ve moved the blog to a new site, Apples and Porsches.
Today’s post is a list of resources for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. I wanted to make sure that any stragglers here got a link over. It’s too important to miss!
Edited: February 24th, 2010
It’s with immense pleasure that I’d like to announce my new site Apples and Porsches!
After a long time to think and some great chats with some great ladies, I’ve decided to move my digs. While it’s been an invaluable learning experience here at JTP, I set up some expectations for the site and for myself that I’ve found to be not only naive, but completely useless. I’ve gotten a bit of perspective and decided to make some changes. I needed a new home with no strings attached (at least in my mind) – somewhere I can really be myself.
So update your bookmarks!
Thank you all for sticking with me and being so awesome. I’ll see you on the other side!
Edited: February 11th, 2010
I grew up watching Levar Burton in his role as the famed Geordi La Forge, just like most of my generation, but that’s not what I remember him for – Reading Rainbow was muchmuchmuch higher on my favorites list as a child. My family loved the show so much that, the year we had no TV, my grandmother sent us 8-hour TV-recorded tapes so we could get our fill of delightful stories and cheeky puns. We even sang the song around the house.
Imagine my surprise when my Google Reader told me that not only had the show been on the air all this time (26 years running!) but that it’s now cancelled.
What?! You can’t cancel Reading Rainbow! That’s my childhood you’re taking off the air! It’s so much more than a TV show about children’s books! It’s a little gem of things we’re losing as a society (which is apparently why it’s been cancelled in the first place).
The show was all about the joys of reading and the sheer, simple pleasure of simply being literate. Not how to read, but why to read. It showed kids (and adults) that there are truly whole worlds between covers just waiting for you to discover them. That there’s no limit on how incredible those worlds can be. Levar constantly reminds the viewer that it’s both important and fun to read.
Those messages seem to be lost nowadays. We focus so much on the process of learning to read and forget that, like anything else in life, without motivation, progress is minimal. Without knowing the treasures just waiting at the flick of a page, kids won’t be inspired to learn. It’s that spark that’s so integral to literacy. We have to see the “why” to get to the “how”.
But, you don’t have to take my word for it. Now get off the internet and go read a book. Something wild and sprawling, for preference.
Bonus points: Hear LeVar on NPR talking about the end of the show.
Edited: September 21st, 2009
