Araminta
Poetry Friday. Before you read my poem "Araminta," I must tell you the amazing story of my characters' names . . . I needed a name. In fact, I needed two names. Not just any names. One had to begin with the sound /n/ and have three syllables. The other had to begin...
Two-4-One Special
End-of-Year Internet Special * Two-4-One * El Paso Workshops Enroll 2 for the price of one, or enroll 4 for the price of 2 , etc. . . . Here is how . . . 1. View / Print Flyer / Registration Form. 2. Pre-register one of the following ways to assure your...
Teach Writing Well
Slice of Life. It was Friday, February 13th, and I was thinking about lots of things and trying to wrap up a lot of loose ends. I spent some delightful time with the #PoetryFriday community at the Happy Birthday party for Lee Bennett Hopkins over at Robyn's place,...
Daniel’s God
Daniel in the Lions’ Den is one of my forever favorite stories. When I was little, the lions captivated my attention. When I grew older, I found strength in Daniel’s faithfulness, choosing to keep God’s law no matter the consequences. And now, I am comforted knowing that the law of the Medes and the Persians is subject to Daniel’s God whom I serve.
Crows and a DEET-ed Tick
Poetry Friday I'm so glad you stop by to join me and the #PoetryFriday community with Robyn Hood Black over at Life on the Deckle Edge to wish a Happy Birthday to Lee Bennett Hopkins -- award-winning children’s author, poet, anthologist, and editor, and a lifelong...
The Comparative Sentence
Slice of Life. There are days when the whole doesn't divide easily. It seems impossible to cut neatly between the minutes and slide out a slice. Like a yeast roll it tears apart, or like a flaky biscuit it crumbles. My present days are like that. I'm in my studio...
Balance
Poetry Friday * Celebrate This Week I am celebrating National Poetry Month by reading poetry, writing poetry, and reflecting on poetry. Reading Poetry. Each morning this past week I've opened my screen to read a poem by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater at The Poem Farm where...
My Journey
Spiritual Journey: Poetry Words mark the path of my journey. They guide me. They remind me. They encourage me. They fall from poems and songs and sermons and conversations. They tumble from the pages of books and from Scriptures. I began my journey at a very young...
Birthdays
Slice of Life By the end of April we will have celebrated ten 2018 birthdays in this family. That leaves us sixteen still to go. Of those sixteen, seven will be in the month of July. Once upon a time, we celebrated each individual birthday. However, in recent years,...
Celebrate
March Slice of Life No. 31 * Celebrate This Week I have two celebrations today. Celebration I: #SOL March 2018 With a 34-word story, I am celebrating writing. I have written every day for thirty-one days -- my daily slice and daily comments on other slices....
The Resurrection
…with my thoughts turned toward the glorious story of Easter, I used the words of C.S. Lewis to compose a found poem “The Resurrection.”
Antithesis of Holy Week
With a haunting beauty, Marie Post captures the antithesis between Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and his arrest, trial, and crucifixion later in the week.
My PD Journals, Part 2
March Slice of Life No. 29. In My PD Journals, Part 1, I share about the notebook I create when planning a workshop and another notebook I create during and after the workshop. In the comments of that post, I was asked, "How do you use them once the workshops are...
My PD Journals, Part 1
March Slice of Life No. 28. This morning, I was searching my PD journals for... Hmmm? What was I searching for? At this very moment, I don't recall what I was searching for, and since it isn't pertinent to what I am now thinking about, I won't spend any time or...
Snacks, Anyone?
March Slice of Life No. 27. "If food doesn't go bad, it's not good for you." That is what the Sejoyia Foods people say. They also say they have "real cookies for real humans." That their cookies are "not your grandma's cookies. No offense to your grandma." They...
EN Anecdotes
March Slice of Life No. 26. Thumbing my journals today, I ran across a few EN anecdotes from his preschool years. Anecdote 1. EN had been trailing me around the house all afternoon. EN: What are you doing, Gramma? Me: Brushing my teeth. EN places his hand on his hip...
Triumphal Entry
This I have prayed.
“Jesus come, break my resistance, and make me your home.”
And He has come.
Assumptions
March Slice of Life No. 24. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” – Alan Alda Several years ago my redheaded daughter-in-law shared "The Cookie Thief"...
Eating Bugs
March Slice of Life No. 22. It was a nondescript day. EM and EN were playing within earshot of the discussion going on at the kitchen table, a discussion between their three older brothers and Mommy, a life science discussion, a discussion about taste buds. Suddenly,...
The No Shot Doctor
March Slice of Life No. 21. It is booster shot day! Every mother knows the misery of that day. My daughter has scheduled two in one -- two kids in one visit. I think she is very brave. Characters: EM, a pink girl, almost five EN, big brother, in first grade Mommy...
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