How is it possible to spend the last year and a half seeing one another only through a bunch of pixellated boxes, yet still come out of the experience so tight-knit?
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Slice of Life Tuesday: Backwards Journal
This post is part of the weekly Slice of Life challenge from Two Writing Teachers. Check them out! Before I landed here, among the cicada noise and the soon-to-be-fireflies and the cooling air and the driftings-in of neighbor sounds; Before I was in the kitchen, prepping weekly lunches and garden pesto and night-time banana oatContinue reading “Slice of Life Tuesday: Backwards Journal”
Slice of Life Tuesday: Beach Thoughts
Some folks go to the beach to collect rocks or shells. I collect my thoughts…
Tuesday Slice of Life: Two Sides of the Same SweeTART
This post is part of the Weekly Slice of Life challenge from Two Writing Teachers. Check them out! It’s summer break now (let us pause for a moment of celebration). I’m supposed to be taking it easy.I’m also supposed to be getting my house back in order.To get back into shape.To carve out time forContinue reading “Tuesday Slice of Life: Two Sides of the Same SweeTART”
Slice of Life: Love Those Writers
I asked my kids to stop, to imagine, to dream about what writing workshop could be. They’ve given me so much to think about over the summer. And while summer canNOT come fast enough, I’m already looking forward to next year.
“I Feel Like a Real Writer” – Guest Post
Friends, I’m so excited to tell you that I am now a contributing author on the Two Writing Teachers website. This community has helped me grow so much as a writer, a teacher and as a person. Honestly, I could gush for quite a while about how transformative the experience has been. Suffice it toContinue reading ““I Feel Like a Real Writer” – Guest Post”
Sunday Sitdown #15: Sugarland, and Regrets
The purpose of this post – the purpose of this series – is to recount my experiences with race, and to claim those moments and choices I wish I could take back. My time with Essence is one of them.
Assigned Writing: A Poem
“And on that rough morning, those bites of sweetness were a simple reminder that the love we put into the world sometimes does, indeed, come back in our direction.”
Assigned Work: Impressions
This May, I’m committing myself to writing student-assigned topics. Some of them might be cut-and-dried, some of them might be bears. And some of them will reveal themselves in the writing. (It’s also Tuesday, which means I’m posting as part of the Slice of Life challenge!) Today’s assignment: How is your vision of yourself different fromContinue reading “Assigned Work: Impressions”
Assigned Work: Literary Essay
This May, I’m committing myself to writing student-assigned topics. Some of them might be cut-and-dried, some of them might be bears. And some of them will reveal themselves in the writing. Today’s assignment: Write a literary essay about the story The Disobedient Son. I’ll say this. This was a BEAR. Mostly because there was a lotContinue reading “Assigned Work: Literary Essay”
Soapbox: The Way I see Things 