Recently, on a trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, my husband and I visited the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. It was high on our (my) list of places to visit while staying in this history-filled Southwestern American city. So, on the first morning, after a long trip the day before, we planned to visit the museum…
Since we are supposed to be sharing a “slice” from our lives, I thought I would write about a very recent experience we’ve had with our dog, Molly. Molly is a 9-month old Yellow Labrador Retriever. We got her at the end of August and her first birthday will be at the end of May. …
It’s Sunday – which for my blog means a photo only post. But, today is also March 1st and the beginning of the Slice of Life Challenge. This is a blogging challenge hosted by TwoWritingTeachers.org which encourages participants to write each day for all thirty-one days of the month of March. In thinking about what…
Recently, I’ve given a lot of thought into the cultural phenomenon of talking over someone. You might know this better as interrupting. We spend a lot of time in schools today on character development and teaching kindness. And, while that is okay and I do understand the need for it, I think that in some…
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, you might remember that I led a third-grade writer’s circle for six years. Weekly, during those six years, I’d return to the elementary school where my boys attended and work with six students, two from each third-grade classroom, on creative writing. Over those years, we…
My Carpenter album collection is something I am not sure I’ll ever part with. Right now, it is at our cabin where we have a Crosby LP Album player, along with some other 1970’s pop music albums. It’s not a collection that I’ve added to over the years, or even played each year over the…
Okay, so in my haste to do two photo challenges today in an effort to make my 1,000 view goal for the month of February, I misread the challenge directions! Apparently, it is a smartphone challenge where the photo has to be taken with a smartphone AND you can only post one photo. So, since…
I have a fellow blogger “friend” who I “met” through the Slice of Life Blog Challenge some years ago. We periodically go through cycles of reading and commenting on each other’s posts. I can tell she is a dedicated educator, fully invested in her students, and for that reason, I continue to follow her and…
Over the last four days, I’ve been in a hospital environment three times, on three different days. The first was emergent. That and the second visit were unplanned and a third visit, today’s, was a scheduled visit. None of the visits brought bad or unexpected news, so you can relax, this is not a post…