by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Three Things Thursday : January 5, 2017. On this Thursday in the first week of the first month of a new year I REJOICE in the satisfaction of endings closure conclusions and grand finales I REJOICE in the opportunities for continuation something that starts where...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Tuesday Slice of Life : January 3, 2017. How did December slip by so fast? Seems only a couple days ago my daughter and I were unpacking boxes of Christmas decorations. It’s one of our traditions: together we remember Christmases past as we decorate my tree,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Celebrate This Week : December 30, 2016. For days I’ve been pondering words — nouns, verbs, adjectives, and even adverbs, searching to know the one little word I should choose for 2017. The word rejoice came to mind, but I pushed it aside and thought of...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday : December 23, 2016 The land tilts away. Sun skims the horizon For a quarter day, shortest day Vanishing into the earliest sunset. Plunged into darkness– No sunrise, no sunset– North Pole is beyond Sun’s reach. At its lowest point, Sun stands...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Tuesday Slice of Life : December 20, 2016. We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. Pope Paul VI Each year, I enjoy so...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday : December 12, 2016. It was just past 5 AM; sunrise was more than two hours away, and the temperature hovered just above freezing. Like a shroud, fog wrapped itself around everything. While family slumbered, I stepped onto my back porch to experience a...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Tuesday Slice of Life : December 12, 2016. First, big wet, sloppy flakes fell. Then, the wind began to howl, driving the flakes sideways, changing them to little pellets of ice. The wind blew so ferociously that when my furnace shut off, the cold that had been...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
Poetry Friday : December 8, 2016. A couple weeks ago, Kiesha Shepard on Whispers from the Ridge shared “Leaf Dance” followed by an Invitation to Write: “Have you ever wondered what objects would say if they could speak? I wonder about this all the...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday : November 25, 2016. My day had started with the car service picking me up at 6:45 AM. Now, after a full morning visiting classrooms, I slipped to Mr. L’s office to eat a late lunch: part from the hotel breakfast bar–hard boiled egg and...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Tuesday Slice of Life : November 22, 2016. It is early. The sun has not yet risen; windows are still black with night. Waiting at Gate A4, sipping a steamy, creamy morning coffee, I casually watch fellow passengers as they gather. That’s when I see her. She is bent...
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