About
The Blog
Wandering Ink is a blog that I started way back in 2006 when I was a wee lass of fourteen with a lot of thoughts that had nowhere to go. It has been my loyal conversation partner all these years, willing to entertain even my weirdest notions when there was no one else to regale with my thoughtful anecdotes. It doesn’t really have a “theme” in the sense of a cooking blog or anything like that, just ideas that drift through my mind. Nowadays those are usually related to politics, literature, and bizarre aspects of daily life.
In 2007, my tongue-in-cheek critique of public education, How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci, was nominated for an Edublog Award under the category of “Most Influential Post”. I lost to the much more articulate Karl Fisch, I believe, but it was certainly an honour!
James Delisle, a professor specializing in special education at Kent State University, wrote a column about my Leonardo da Vinci post in Gifted Child Today, which I had no idea about until months later via a Google trackback. Having read a lot of his work in gifted education prior to that, I was very shocked!
The Blogger
A native of Vancouver, Canada, currently located in the lovely provincial capital of Victoria, where I attend the University of Victoria, famous for its campus population of more than two thousand rabbits. I’m studying for a double major in political science and economics, but I hope to use them for good rather than evil.
I can’t leave a used bookstore without a stack of books, I drink a lot of coffee, and I take the bus because I get distracted and zone out at red lights when I try to drive. I think that Voltaire is the funniest person not alive, that 42 is the answer, and that war is not peace, freedom is not slavery, and ignorance is not strength.
