Judgment
So I had occasion this week to take a group of students to be judged. They are our school’s Sterling […]
Writing Stories
It’s not just something writer-people do, you know. Everyone does it. When the car goes screaming past, we automatically give
In Just-
It’s feeling Just Spring to me today. So I revel in e.e. cummings’ poetry and all the weirdness thereof. I
The Turtle Part
My 11th grade students are reading THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Okay, that’s a lie. They’re studying it, though. Because I
Open Letter to the High School Kid who Played Ball with my Boy
Thank you. I’m not talking to the You who was my student, or the You who is a poet. Right
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Intentions
Can a person make a habit of good intentions? Because on the surface that sounds like Not a Bad Idea.
Writing Snowflakes
I’m having one of those existential moments when I’m finished reading to my Creative Writing class and pestering those who
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What They Say about Writing (and How They’re Probably Right)
Hey, writer people: If you want to write, you write, they say. Do it every day, they say. And you
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Crazy-Amazing
Some days you want to forget, you hear me? And then there are days like yesterday. I never want to
Breaks
I love my Christmas vacation! (Look! An Exclamation Mark! Many Marks!) I have my whole little family home, and we