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
White Rain
White Rain, he calls it. How clever. How charming. How distinctly incorrect. Because no matter how cute you are when