Me
Who I am
I spent two decades helping companies like Bell Labs, Juniper Networks, and a genetic testing company that was later acquired by CVS translate some of the world’s most complicated concepts into actionable, understandable English. Now I’m working on a much harder problem — how parents can foster their children’s curiosity and engagement in the scientific, artistic, and linguistic world that surrounds them, without being a scientist, artist, or linguist themselves.
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Email me at shalahowell (at) gmail (dot) com. Or find me on Facebook, Goodreads, or Twitter: @shalahowell.My book
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Tag Archives: Elvis
What’s The Ten-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Ten-Year-Old steals Grandpa’s copy of Closer Magazine’s Elvis: The Collector’s Edition. Continue reading
Throwback Thursday: The Four-Year-Old writes Elvis
The Ten-Year-Old has been an Elvis fan for at least six of her ten years. There have been a few rocky points in their relationship, however. Like that time The Four-Year-Old learned that Elvis didn’t really like cats. And then … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says, Reviews: Music, Throwback Thursdays
Tagged Christmas, Elvis, Elvis Christmas Album
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Wordless Wednesday: The Six-Year-Old Issues an All-Points Alert
Recently I discovered Wordless Wednesdays through the blog, 5 Minutes for Mom. Basically, on Wednesdays all around the Internet, bloggers post their favorite photos, ideally without any words to accompany them, but often with 1-2 sentences of context. I’m not … Continue reading
The Four-Year-Old writes Elvis
Dear Elvis, Your Christmas album has too many slow songs. Slow songs aren’t as pretty as the fast ones. Affectionately, The Four-Year-Old
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says, Reviews: Music
Tagged Christmas, Elvis, Elvis Christmas Album
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“Did Elvis have a cat?”
The Four-Year-Old adores dinosaurs, cats, and Elvis. So naturally she wants to know all the combinations in which these revered beings might co-exist. Dinosaurs having died out years before Elvis was born, he clearly wouldn’t have had them as pets … Continue reading
Posted in Ask the iPhone
Tagged animals, cats, Eddie Deezen, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Graceland, pets, Wendell Corey
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If you buy a preschooler the Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits album…
She will: ask you to play the album on a near constant rotation until she has memorized all 30 songs develop her own choreography for “Jailhouse Rock”, “Hard Headed Woman”, and “Hound Dog” dig through her clothes for a sparkly … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says
Tagged dancing, Elvis, Elvis Presley, music, songs
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