Two years. It’s been two years since we packed up our loveys for a couple of weeks of online learning before spring break. Two years since kids, backpacks stuffed to the brink with textbooks and worksheet packets and iPads and school supplies, flooded the hallway with the same kind of excitement and anticipation that usuallyContinue reading “Story Challenge Day 13: Two Years”
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Story Challenge Day 12: How to Get Around Tough Stuff
In case you are wondering, I am providing – for YOUR experience and benefit, and not at all for my own perverse need for procrastination, this here following: Guide to Letting Yourself Put Off Tasks that are Difficult, Uncomfortable, and a General Pain in the Patoot Get yourself a dog. The needier, the better. PetContinue reading “Story Challenge Day 12: How to Get Around Tough Stuff”
Story Challenge, Day 5: There Are Worse Things
Some days, words are great. Sometimes, pictures do just as well.
Today, despite the uproar and chaos that still envelop our world, I was able to carve out some moments of joy. So I’ll just share those.
Slice of Life March Writing Challenge, Day 1
I ask my kids to write all the time. Sometimes they feel like it, sometimes, they don’t. But they show up for me, for themselves, for the classmates – every time.
So this March, my daily writing practice is dedicated to my students, who are some of the best sports I know.
Slice of Life Tuesday: Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda
This slice of life could have been about the daily wrestling match that gets fought at five a.m. between my alarm and my brain, or about the importance of having workout buddies who look out for me, who expect so much from me, who inspire me to do better, or about the way time. Slows.Continue reading “Slice of Life Tuesday: Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda”
Slice of Life Tuesday: Writing “Process”
I spent…a LOT of my time writing this weekend.
Between one purpose and another, I probably spent 8-10 hours with my fingers on these keys. All of it was good, and writing in that great a volume has me wondering if I should be expecting more of myself or not. That line between grace and tough love is a fine one, my friends…
Slice of Life: One Little Word 2022
Well, friends, it’s that time of year in the Slice of Life community where I reflect on where I am now, gaze ahead to the the coming year, and choose One Little Word to guide me. Last year, I started with the word gather, then slid into dissonance and landed, later on, on unfurl. I’m glad that I gave myselfContinue reading “Slice of Life: One Little Word 2022”
Slice of Life Tuesday: On Sunsets
This post is part of the weekly Slice of Life challenge from Two Writing Teachers. Check them out! Yesterday was a bingbangboom kind of a day. One of those days where I rely on to-do lists and razor-sharp logistics. Drop the dog off, take care of Chanukah packages, make it to my meeting, squeeze my plans in,Continue reading “Slice of Life Tuesday: On Sunsets”
Slice of Life Tuesday: Story’s Sneak Attack
Story’s back at it, and she’s found me…
Slice of Life Tuesday: Another Sort of Slice
When a girl wants to write a blog post but can’t handle another minute in front of the computer screen…
Soapbox: The Way I see Things 