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[tblue37]

I am tblue37. I had to become tblue37 (or at least tblue something), because DU already had a longtime member named tblue. Whenever we see each other on DU, we always greet each other thus: “Hi, Cuz!” But we are not actually related and do not actually even know each other.

I teach college English. My grammar and usage website, which has won me millions of readers worldwide, is just one of 10 sites where I post my articles and essays about all sorts of topics that interest me, including ADD/ADHD (and sometimes other learning differences), deafness/hearing loss, parenting and children’s needs, poetry, teaching, and essay-writing. I also have a site (Out of the Blue) where I post articles that don’t fit the topics of my other 9 sites, one where I post funny true animal stories, and one where I post funny true stories about children. Since in addition to teaching college I also ran a home daycare for 18 years (while my own two kids were minors), I have many such anecdotes!

I have been posting on DU since June of 2004, having followed a link from The Smirking Chimp to a DU post by H2Oman, who continues to be one of the DU members whose posts I value most highly. I quickly abandoned The Smirking Chimp for DU, because I much prefer the openness and ease of use here. I have tried The Daily Kos and a few other sites, but DU just works better for me. The others seem too complicated to navigate or participate in, though I do sometimes visit them to read interesting posts.

Every now and then I post a link here to one of my own articles—usually one on my Teacher, Teacher site—when the topic seems relevant to a particular discussion I am participating in on DU.

The home page of each of my 10 sites has links to all of my other sites, and each site has its own article index. I write about many different topics that DU members would probably find interesting. (I have about 450 articles posted across my 10 sites.) Perhaps some of you would enjoy scanning my article index pages and reading a few of my essays. I have been told by readers that my essays are like potato chips—once they start reading an article on one of my sites, they end up staying up far too late reading one after another after another.