This morning I feel like I am just spinning my wheels. Flitting from project to project and not focusing or getting much done. I do have things to do, too. February brings participation in a local “maker” show with my handcrafted jewelry. March brings two presentations on gardening for a local conference of the same…
self reflection
Journalistic Style: It’s a Matter of Opinion
Today, I offer a few words about journalists and journalism. They were inspired by watching the local news, national network news, and NPR. Stop commenting on everything! One of our local newscasters comments on every story! It is so annoying. I really do not want or need her opinion. I just want the facts, not…
A Mixed Up Day
Today is a mixed up day. It started about an hour and a half after the time I normally arise. I was greeted with bright sunshine peeking through my blinds. But, the thermometer said it was 10 below zero! There is no need to make lunches or get to school on time. There are four…
Favorite Christmas Movies
My son came home from school yesterday and said he did well on some kind of in class Christmas movie trivia contest his teacher had on Kahoot. I laughed at it because he had me pegged, stating that he told his teacher that it isn’t Christmas in our house until we have watched White Christmas at…
My Trouble With The Holidays
We are late this year getting the holiday decorations up. Yesterday, we finally got our tree – a live one – bummed off some friends with a tree farm for a bottle of whiskey! Hey, it pays to know people! Right? Most of the tree farms have opened and already closed for the season. Today, I…
Feedback on Writing
What kind of feedback do you offer your students on their writing? Are you red pen crazy? Do you mark up the paragraph, page, or essay with slashes, carots, and circles every where there is an error? Do you do this with another color pen – trying to conceal your zeal for marking the page?…
A Lesson: Give Others the Same Break You Give Yourself
It’s Tuesday again! Already! Time for a Slice of Life Post sponsored by the Two Writing Teachers Blog. Last Thursday, I found out the my proposed study, Garden Education and The Subsequent Development of Environmental Stewardship: Indicative Memories, was approved by the IRB, or Institutional Review Board, at the university I attend for graduate school. My mentor…
A Singular Haiku
Not much in me today. A singular haiku is all I can post. Reevaluating myself. Frost Haiku White covering grass Stiff, still, silent frost comes in Overnight to morn
Directions to Home, Please
Next week, I will travel 900 miles by air to spend a few days with my parents at their home. It is something I have never done alone, since having a family of my own. For some, this might seem strange. I have friends who see their parents several times a week, and might even…
A Garden I Know, and One I Will Learn
The school down the road has a garden that I know well. There, in the butterfly garden, are plants picked by former students and some selected by me, some were donated by parents or staff, and many were purchased. In the center is a large, overgrown, lilac bush. It serves as a shelter for butterflies…