The Importance of Unimportant Things
As I approached the end of a couple of weeks of blessed school vacations, when the most I had to […]
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What do you think you look like?
In Creative Writing yesterday I asked the kids to do their writer’s notebooks (the part where they write by hand
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Strange Places for Chatting
I was walking down the hall to the faculty room today – to refill my water bottle from the yummy
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Eavesdropping — A Dialog-Writing Exercise
So yesterday in my Novel Writing class, I sent the kids into the commons for the last 20 minutes of
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Dr. PimplePopper
This is a thing. I wish it were a thing I made up myself, because DR. PIMPLEPOPPER. But, in fact,
Unanswerable
Dear Friend, Letters are the only way I can talk to you now. For six months I’ve tried to write
Morning Mantras
It’s not meditation, not really – because I’m not sitting still. I understand the value of that part, and I’m
It’s Summer, Don’t You Know.
School has ended for the year. (*Whew*) It was a great year. Moments were long. Months were short. At the
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Revitalized
I went to the world’s best [*] writing conference this weekend. There were many, many reasons to be joyful. I
Long, long ago…
I just had occasion to remember something. When I was in 7th grade, (can you, reader, already feel the tension