(A Dame’s School courtesy of flickr via photopin)

So, I’m going to do something new and radical this April. I’m going to participate in Blogging A to Z. That means I will join with a bunch of other bloggers and create a blog post every day in April with Sundays off for good (or bad) behavior. Twenty-six days, twenty-six letters. Check out the cool Blogging A to Z website here.

Maybe you’d like to join in. Please do. Cruise on over to the sign-up page.

Methinks I must be crazy…Deb of the I’ll-post-when-I-feel-like-it persuasion. Hopefully, I’ll feel like it a whole lot in April. Part of the fun will be tooling around the World Wide Web looking at other bloggers’ offerings. Sounds exhilarating, yes?

Now it is time for the big Theme Reveal.

My theme is: The Three R’s.

What’s that?

Cast your mind back to grade school when we all studied the three R’s: Readin’, (W)ritin’, and Rithmetic. Wait a minute, you say. Doesn’t rithmetic start with an A? There’s some irony in there somewhere–as in, if you know your readin and writin, you’d probably know how to spell er, math.

My three R’s are slightly different. I blew math, so we can cross that one right off.

Deb’s Three R’s: Readin, (W)ritin, and Research.

I will ruminate on…

1. Stuff I read

2. Stuff I write about

3. Stuff I found out while engaged in activities one and two. See above.

I guess I got inspired by the A to Z alphabet thing, which reminded me of elementary school. At any rate, here’s our first research tidbit. Apparently, the three R’s phrase was based on a speech Sir William Curtis gave in 1795. His biographer, Henry Morse Stephens, called him “a pitiably bad speaker, very badly educated” as well as the butt of many jokes. Who knows, maybe Sir William really didn’t know how to spell arithmetic?

Blogging A to Z begins April 1. I’ll be busy writing and snooping around other blogs. I really, really hope you’ll check in and check out my “stuff”!