Ah! Already planning on that Second Edition of Grow With the Flow!

When the book described IntelligenceRiver.net, the web site to support the community of Grow With the Flow readers, I said one of the buildings in RiverTown, along with the Coffee Shop (our forum) and the RiverTown News (this blog), was an Outfitters. It was to be a list of annotated links to quality sources for supplies and equipment, organizations that support parents, and web sites of all sorts with helpful information.

Paul pointed out today that it might make more sense to simply describe those quality links here in RiverTown News. “Agreed,” I said, “but then people won’t be able to sort those posts out, if all they want is that list of resources.” With the genuine forebearance that makes him a gifted teacher, he pointed out that if I simply made a new category within this blog, all readers would need to do is click that category and they’d have a list of all the links.

It’s at this point that I usually go into my Homer Simpson routine….

Anyhow, here it is, a new category called “Outfitters,” where we’ll list resources we think may be able to help you and your children on your journey along the Intelligence River.

I just talked with Paul about a slight problem: Grow With the Flow is ready to go, IntelligenceRiver.net isn’t. (He’s up to his neck in a project for Minnesota Public Radio.) We decided that for the moment he’ll hold off on the part of the web site that will sell the book. In its place, he’ll post contact information for The Erie Book Store. People will still be able to buy the book by toll-free calls, fax, or email – it’s only online ordering that won’t yet be possible. The advantage is, we can get the web site up and running: post the first chapter of the book, open the doors of the Coffee Shop, and get posts to RiverTown News (like this one) online.