by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
April 8: Happy National Poetry Month! I am celebrating Poetry Month by pairing quotes about poetry with images. I will share one each day without commentary. Photo credit: Alice Nine where Alice Nine teaches language lessons that Empower Students to Read and Write...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
April 7: Happy National Poetry Month! I am celebrating Poetry Month by pairing quotes about poetry with images. Usually I share these without commentary. However, I felt this photograph and quote required commentary. I took this photo during our Ancestral Trip when we...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL26-0407A Bite of a Grandma Slice Conversation with a three-year-old. Prologue.I am Me, the Grandma; BN is a three-year-old, my grandson. I’m preparing lunch; BN is pulling a chair up to the kitchen table. On the table is my husband’s MacBook Pro —...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
April 6: Happy National Poetry Month! I am celebrating Poetry Month by pairing quotes about poetry with images. I will share one each day without commentary. Image source: pixabay.com where Alice Nine teaches language lessons that Empower Students to Read and Write...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
April 5: Happy National Poetry Month! I am celebrating Poetry Month by pairing quotes about poetry with images. I will share one each day without commentary. Image source: pixabay.com where Alice Nine teaches language lessons that Empower Students to Read and Write...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
April 4: Happy National Poetry Month! I am celebrating Poetry Month by pairing quotes about poetry with images. I will share one each day without commentary. Image source: pixabay.com where Alice Nine teaches language lessons that Empower Students to Read and Write...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
April 3: Happy National Poetry Month! I am celebrating Poetry Month by pairing quotes about poetry with images. I will share one each day without commentary. Image source: pixabay.com where Alice Nine teaches language lessons that Empower Students to Read and Write...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
#PoetryFriday 26_0403. We are celebrating Holy Week — the most sacred week in Christianity. During this week, we commemorate the final days of Jesus Christ’s life on earth — beginning with His joyous entry into Jerusalem, continuing through His suffering,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
April 2: Happy National Poetry Month! I am celebrating Poetry Month by pairing quotes about poetry with images. I will share one each day without commentary. Image source: pixabay.com where Alice Nine teaches language lessons that Empower Students to Read and Write...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
April 1 Happy National Poetry Month! I am celebrating Poetry Month by pairing quotes about poetry with images. I will share one each day without commentary. Image source: pixabay.com #poetryquote #NPM2026
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Spiritual Journey 26 * March * Strength Thank you, Leigh Anne for our March prompt: Strength.Reader, you can join us in reflection and share your own experiences by clicking here. Spiritual Journey 2026 But those who wait on the LordShall renew their strength;They...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 31 I.A HEARTFELT THANK YOU! On this our last day of the March 2026 Slice of Life Challenge,I thank those who have hosted this challenge on Two Writing Teachers; I thank all the Slicers who shared their story slices for me to read,to learn...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 30Leigh Anne Eck is hosting her yearly Slice of Life party. Invitation
When: March 2026
Where: Leigh Anne Eck’s blogWho: All slicers are invited
Special instructions: NO devices allowed; bring an analog bag Now, pack your bag and...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 29 Last week I shared a sonnet by poet-priest Malcom Guite, “Palm Sunday” (read my post). Today, on Palm Sunday, as we enter Holy Week, I am sharing a poem, also named “Palm Sunday,” by Marie J. Post. With haunting...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 28This is a high interest post for coffee lovers. Geisha coffee? Have you ever heard of Geisha coffee? No? Neither had I until my son gave me a small bag of coffee from Panama, a gift to him while he was there that he shared with me. As...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 27#PoetryFriday 26-0327 This Sunday we will celebrate Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. And so I am sharing “Palm Sunday,” one of the Holy Week sonnets by the poet-priest Malcom Guite published in his book Sounding...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 26 Fire drills. Tornado drills. Lockdown drills. Tsunami drills. Earthquake drills. Shelter-in-place drills.All sounds of impending danger. How do these monthly drills affect our children? As I ponder this, I take a step back from this...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 25 A Bite of a Slice is a moment within a Slice of Life. What is a Travel Bite? It is the retelling of a moment that I captured in real time during years and years and years of travel. I’ve crisscrossed the country for more than...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 24 In a couple days, in my heart, quietly, I will celebrate my dad’s birthday. He has now been gone from us longer than he was with us. The last day I was with him was my wedding day, the day he gave me to another man to have and to...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 23Written from a freewrite in my 2015 Journal The sun rose around 7 AM. When I looked out my dining room windows, I could see the shape of the magnolia buds, shadows against the dimly lit sky, a sign that spring is coming soon. The sun...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 22 I inherited my mom’s cookbooks. In the stack is a spiral bound cookbook she had purchased from one of my children’s school fund raisers: Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook. Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook I like to read cookbooks,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 21 Baking an apple pie? Which apples should you choose? One afternoon — when I was a novice at all things baking — I stood in front of the bins of apples in our grocery store’s fresh produce section, totally confused...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 20#PoetryFriday, 26_0320 In about a week, we will celebrate Palm Sunday–the first day of Holy Week, perhaps the most celebrated week in Christianity. It begins with Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, recorded in all four Gospels...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 19 On Tuesday, St. Patrick’s Day, in the spirit of the Irish, I decided we would write limericks. “We” refers to my daughter’s three youngest children, teenagers who school at home, and me. I teach their writing...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 18 It was a lovely day by the sea. I.We started the day with a cup of coffee perked in our hotel room. It was not just any cup of coffee; it was Oregon Fog, a special blend from Sleepy Monk Coffee Roasters. As they say, “It’s...
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