The Letters of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a prolific writer of letters. Here we look at a collection of letters to his friends, family, and editors, plus a volume of letters to his fiancé, Felice Bauer.
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Tag: letters
Real Mail Magic
The act of writing their names on paper—guiding a pen into the shapes of their full names, not Twitter handles, and then an address that sets them in a place, a real street somewhere in the world—feels so refreshingly tactile. To be able to hold something in your hand and send it off, knowing soon they’ll be holding the very same thing. Someone you’re only aware of through pixels on a screen, holding the same paper you once held!
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Continue the Journey with ‘Letters of Note: Volume 2’
Following in the steps of his earlier compilations, Shaun Usher continues to bring us letters from famous and not-so-famous, but all important, people.
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Daily #DadJoke for September 05, 2015
I am terrified of alphabet soup…
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Games! ‘Paperback’ and ‘Five Tribes’
Paperback and Five Tribes are the two favorite games Rebecca Angel played at ConnectiCon this year. Check them out!
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Letters to Aunt C: On the Power of Reading, Writing, and Good Advice
Letters can change you, stay with you, keep those you love close to you, even when they’re gone.
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution — Random Word Search
How many “hidden” words could you find in this random word grid? Did you find the longest word?
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week — Random Word Search
How many words can you find in this randomly generated grid of letters? What is the longest word you can find?
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Friend Diagrams
Were you able to classify each of my friends’ names appropriately? Which segment only had two names?
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Friend Diagrams
Given four 50/50 criteria, which of the sixteen pockets created includes just two of my friends?
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Chainsaw Sandwich
Can you find the set of 12 letters that produces the most 8-letter words? If so, a fabulous prize could be yours!
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Anagrammed Emmy Winners
Were you able to unscramble these relatively recent Emmy winners?
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Anagrammed Emmy Winners
Can you unscramble these relatively recent Emmy winners?
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – 99 Word Grid
How many words summing to 99 could you find? Were you able to solve the word grid for your chance at a fabulous prize?
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – 99 Word Grid
If MATH is the meaning of life, what words sum to 99? Complete the word grid to find out!
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Letter Dice
Were you able determine how many valid words can be “rolled” by these letter-labeled dice? Is the fabulous prize yours?
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Letter Dice
Can you determine how many valid words can be “rolled” by these letter-labeled dice? If so, $50 from ThinkGeek may soon be coming your way!
Continue ReadingSpongeBob is Trying to Get Kids to Write More Letters
Nickelodeon’s most square character is teaming up with the USPS for the SpongeBob MailPants program.
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Please check out our sponsor for the day, Typecrush – a puzzling game of words. Typecrush is a simple, elegant, game of word-sleuthing based on number frequency, perfect for families.
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week – 4 of 6
Six letter words are funny — only about half of them don’t repeat any letters, and just under two-thirds of them include the letter “e.” Ok, so maybe these facts are more “funny/strange” than “funny/ha-ha,” but phrases made out …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Previously Valedictory Vowels
Last week’s puzzle as presented, with the answers in-line: The word “facetious” is one of my favorite words. It contains all of the vowels, in alphabetic order. If you make it an adverb (“facetiously”) then you get the sometimes-vowel …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Previously Valedictory Vowels
The word “facetious” is one of my favorite words. It contains all of the vowels, in alphabetic order. If you make it an adverb (“facetiously”) then you get the sometimes-vowel “y” to boot. I believe that only “abstemiously” and “adventitiously” …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Contiguous Consonants
Here’s last week’s puzzle as presented: Over the past few weeks, my wife Allison and I have done our annual summer trip up north with the kids to visit family in northernmost New York and southern Ontario, Canada. During the …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Contiguous Consonants
Over the past few weeks, my wife Allison and I have done our annual summer trip up north with the kids to visit family in northernmost New York and southern Ontario, Canada. During the Canadian segment, I went for a drive …
Continue ReadingBook Review: P.S. I Still Hate It Here: More Kids’ Letters From Camp
Diane Falanga has gathered some of the funniest letters from camp that you will ever read. This is actually her second book of camp letters and was compiled from thousands of submissions. It’s not just a re-written compilation of the letters, either. The pages of this book are full of copies of the actual letters kids wrote, complete with grammar errors that would make an English teacher cringe and an abundance of hearts and sloppy kid handwriting.
Continue ReadingReview: Wordtoons Turn Words Into Cartoons
Invented by New Zealand cartoonist Wayne Logue, Wordtoons show kids how to turn a simple written word into a cartoon depicting that word. With the addition of just a few pencil lines,”dog” for instance, is transformed into a cartoon of a dog. Step by step instructions teach kids to turn words like robot, fruit, city, […]
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