by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March Slice of Life No. 7. Tonight we had beer-ox! Some people call them bierocks, pronounced /brocks/. Some people call them piroshki. My grandkids call them meat pockets. I have a favorite memory. Really it is an accumulative memory of balmy afternoons that included...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March Slice of Life No. 6. I learned a new word. The text A limerick by Diane Mayr There once was a ‘gator named Nathan who eschewed the state of brumation. He skied and he skated– and was truly elated– to became an Olympic sensation. The word...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March Slice of Life No. 5. This will be my final post about snow for Winter 2017-18. The life and times of the Snows begin on February 19th and end on 28th. MONDAY Our world awakes to a thin white blanket. 9:30 AM. My grandkids build a “partially brown...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March Slice of Life No. 4. In February, I joined Laura Shovan’s poetry challenge. Each day we were presented visual art as a prompt to draft an ekphrastic poem. On Day 17, Tricia Stohr-Hunt shared “The Tall White Sun” (1917), a painting by Charles...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March Slice of Life No.3 * Celebrate This Week. I’m sharing a slice and celebrating comfort on this Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and a wedge of cornbread drizzled with warm cream and maple syrup. There are some days that are comfort days, like...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday * March Slice of Life No. 2. “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” Dr. Suess, Happy Birthday to You During February, I wrote poetry with a wonderful community of poets. On Day 21,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March Slice of Life No. 1. It’s already March 1 in EST zone. And since I live in the northwest, three hours behind EST, I take advantage of this to be an “early slicer.” Tonight I’m sitting in an easy chair, drafting this slice on my laptop....
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life. I. Wednesday will be the last day in Laura Shovan’s February Annual Poetry Writing Project. February has been a great month of sustained poetry writing, spontaneously responding daily to a random visual art prompt. Every day for 26 days (soon to...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday * Celebrate this Week * Spiritual Journey. A poem became a song and is sung around the world. I have a girlhood memory, or perhaps I should say a repeated memory, or maybe it’s really a string of memories that telescope into one, of my...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life. It snowed. On Sunday, in the stillness of a windless afternoon, under heavy grey skies, gigantic wet flakes like confetti fell straight to the ground. Whenever it snows, I like to look at the trees and rooftops from our second story hallway dormer...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Celebrate This Week This week I’ve been celebrating love. On Saturday, I found a skinny poem in the words of 1 Corinthians 13. Love Greatest of all is love kindly patiently enduring. Love hopes believes forgives. Love is greatest of all. (Back story is below in...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday. This week Holly Thompson shared “Eclipse,” a corrugated artwork by Colleen Sakurai, for Day 15 of Lauren Shovan’s 6th Annual February Poetry Project. Having experienced a total solar eclipse in Oregon on August 21, 2017, I immediately...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life This is February. The month that belongs to Valentine’s Day. The month of roses, chocolate, and love songs. The month of candied hearts and silly school rhymes. The month that I initial papers with red hearts that smile. And so with hearts on my...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday * Celebrate This Week I am celebrating a week of writing. A poem. Every day. I’ve committed to composing a poem each day in response to a work of art. I wrote about it last week and shared my first two poems. This week, I’ve played around...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life. Our temps reached 57 today before the sun began to sink. I’ve noticed evening light is lingering longer and the sun isn’t tracking so low in our southern sky. Dare I believe that winter is behind us? With the warmer weather and sunny hours,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday. It is February! And the 6th Annual February Daily Poem Project has begun. About the middle of February last year, I joined this community of poetry writers. I wrote a few poems and I read a lot more. And most of all, I fell in love with the support they...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
I saw this graphic and thought, What a compelling question on so many levels. Answer carefully, for your answer –a working thesis for your 2018 life essay– will help you keep your focus. And don’t wait too long to give your answer. I’d love to...
by Alice Nine | Literacy |
Take a peek inside my notebook that I use for my Snippety Grammar 4 Editing STAARs workshop . . . Visit Snippety Grammar 4 Editing STAARs on my Calendar. Take a peek inside my notebook that I use for my Writing STAAR Essays workshop . . . Visit Writing STAAR...
by Alice Nine | Literacy |
Growing Strong Writers is a series of professional development workshops. In these workshops, I am attentive to the importance of daily writing practice, the complex demands of learning English, and a desire to cultivate a love for writing. These workshops offer...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday * Five Minute Friday * Celebrate this Week. As we slip from May to June, our schedules are filled with end-of-school celebrations, commencements, weddings, anniversaries, and anticipation of summer vacations — all marking stones in life that give...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Five Minute Friday & Celebrate this Week. [I’ve linked up with Kate Motaung where bloggers share their five minute quick write on a chosen word. I’ve also linked up with Ruth Ayres where bloggers share something they are celebrating.] The VISIT I. One...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday. During the next few weeks, schools will be closing for summer vacation. As a tribute to teachers everywhere, I share Mattie Stepanek’s poem– written when he was eight years old. May it bring you a few chuckles even as it has me. Not Quite...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life. It is still twilight when I pick up a banana and cup of coffee from the hotel breakfast buffet. My reserved Carmel Car drives up as I exit the lobby. I drop my bag onto the floorboard and slide into the back seat of the dark sedan, confirming my...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Celebrate this Week : Family. [I’ve linked up with Ruth Ayres where bloggers share something they are celebrating.] I celebrate family every week, but this week it is extra special. On Sunday we all knew we were into the final countdown. A countdown that has...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday. Lavender. Oh, — — the color. — the fragrance. — the sound of the word. All summer long, I enjoy my bed lavender. I can’t walk past it without breaking off a stem and rubbing it between my palms. In the cool of early summer...
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