by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Last night it snowed. A hushed white, a soft, muffling blanket tucked me in. Nothing to do, and so I did nothing. © Alice Nine Carol at Beyond Literacy Link is hosting #PoetryFriday this week. Come by and join in! And thank you...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Tuesday Slice of Life : January 24, 2017. The biblical story of Noah’s ark is an all time preschool favorite. Kids like the animals. They like the big boat. And they really like the rainbow. It is also a favorite of mine because it is the story of a just man of...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Celebrate this Week : January 21, 2017 This week I am celebrating boots and shoes! I found comfort! I found style! And they fit! I found them in the airport of all places. Yep! At ccMcKenzie Shoes and Apparel in Concourse C at the Portland International Airport. I...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Tuesday Slice of Life : January 17, 2017. My first stop. Her laugh had bubbles in it. Our paths intersected as I walked down Concourse C. In other words, we bumped into each other. I was looking to my left; I guess she was looking the other way. As we bumped, offered...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Celebrate This Week : January 14, 2017. This week I celebrate the past and the present in my “professional development life” Backstory. For more than twenty years, I have provided professional development to schools across the country. The bulk of this PD...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Literacy |
Poetry Friday : January 13, 2017. . When I thumb the pages of my journals and look through my photos, I find an interesting thread — sunsets and sunrises. And in addition to writing about sunrises and sunsets and taking photos of them, I find myself recording...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Three Things Thursday : January 12, 2017. One: I am grateful for opportunities to plant seeds in the lives of others and to watch them bloom! Two: I am thankful for the smiles of strangers that have lifted my spirits on my travels this week. Three: I celebrated my...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Tuesday Slice of Life : January 10, 2017 A game of hangman using the Bible story words is a favorite of the kids in my Sunday school class. If you’ve ever played hangman, you know that all the letters guessed are recorded — those that are in the word or...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Celebrate This Week : January 6, 2017. Mick, my little brother, has been in my heart much this week. Just five years ago, on January 4, 2012, after a very long battle with Parkinson’s Disease, Mick said goodby to me. The next day, I posted Mick’s high...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday : January 6, 2017 Grandkids are praying for snow. Weather forecasters are predicting snow. January is the month for snow. And I’m writing about snow. Here’s my haiku for snow. snowflakes softly drifting down one by one by one grandkids...
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