Category: writing
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Teachers Write! – Describe a Specific Place
As part of the writing prompt for today’s yesterday’s Teacher’s Write, we were encouraged to pick a place and write a description of that place. Here is my paragraph(s) written within the two minute time frame and then additional time to rewrite with more details. — The prairie grasses stand tall in the deep road ditch. They…
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Making Time for Writing – Teachers Write
This summer I have signed up for a virtual summer writing camp called “Teachers Write.” I know – it probably sounds silly right. I mean, I am a freelance writer. I get paid to write. I shouldn’t struggle with writing. But I do when it comes to myself. I can be handed a writing assignment…
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Summer (June) Goals
Yeah! It is the start of summer for us today since Kory’s official school work is done! I love summer. Always have. As a kid, it meant no school, plenty of time to play outdoors, eating watermelon (and having watermelon seed spitting contests with my siblings and cousins) and lots of time swimming! As an…
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Wordless Wednesday – My Name in Print
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Poetry, my son, a cow and the moon
I was supposed to teach my son about poetry. The lesson plan had the poems to use. I glanced at them and thought they looked boring. If you are new to my blog, you may have missed an earlier blog post of mine. Basically, I don’t like poetry, much. I’m getting better at that though. Instead…
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The Waiting Room
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time in waiting rooms as my son has his ongoing vision therapy sessions. I’ve always liked to people watch, but somehow this hour of sitting causes me to watch even more. Today this is what I saw while I waited and watched news coverage on the sole television…
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Feeling Lost
I really felt lost yesterday. I started into my regular online routine. I checked Facebook and then Twitter. Usually I go straight for a Twitter search on #slice2012. It was then I remembered, the challenge is done. Yesterday, I went to the dashboard of my blog to get ready to post my writing for the…
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I don’t like poetry
I don’t like poetry. I don’t get poetry. I don’t like writing poetry. I don’t like teaching poetry. I like poetry about as much as my husband likes going to art museums. I clearly remember a couple art museum visits with Keith. I was so embarrassed when he loudly said, “oh look that lady has…
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What to write about today?
What to write about today? I could finish the draft I started about the songs on my workout mix. That will take too much work. I’ll have to listen to the songs and highlight which lyrics inspire me to lift harder or walk faster. Although I can easily say that Legs by ZZ Top is…
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Hitting the Send Button
I thought I had it under control. I thought I knew how to make sure it wouldn’t become an issue. But now I sit and know it isn’t true. I stare at a finished article. One part of my brain says, “Get your email ready, attach the file and hit send.” The other part says,…