When that little phrase “will you accept cookies” used to pop up on my computer, I’d laugh and picture a warm chocolate chip cookie popping out of the disk drive as soon as I clicked ok. Cookies were always a source of comfort for me and when I saw the above photo, it just . . . → Read More: Change Through Cookies
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“Stop wearing you wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert Wow. That sure hits home if you’ve ever been called upon to do something hard that you just didn’t want to do. You wish it could be different, but you have to buck up and do what needs to be done. You . . . → Read More: Bones Today was my first Bikram class in well over a week, due to being in Boston last week. I attended the morning class with all my yoga buddies. A favorite of mine was teaching and the room was perfect. Perfect teacher, perfect room, perfect that my friends were all around me – the only thing . . . → Read More: Sitting Down In Bikram (An Experiment) Sushi is like skiing. Sushi is also like golfing. Sushi is not like bowling. This I realized yesterday when I suggested, “Dinner?” to a friend. She came back with, “Sushi?” “Uh…no,” I replied. There are certain things in life you should learn. There are certain things in life you should teach your children, such . . . → Read More: Sushi Is Like Skiing This morning I woke up lying in the aftermath of my week in Boston. A week that I could never, even in my writer’s imagination, have imagined. I needed to keep my lens, through which I focus the week’s happenings, adjusted properly. I knew today was going to be a day of coming down, coming . . . → Read More: A Soft Landing Day three of my Young Authors Workshop was Illustration Day. We met my illustrator friend, Lynne Chapman from the UK, via website. The children saw video of how she goes about illustrating a book and then watched her do an actual page from her studio. Next they used Lynne’s how to draw lessons on her . . . → Read More: Illustration Day – Day 3 This morning I got up and set to work going out to do what I needed to do today along with all the other Bostonians all around me. A friend of mine wrote a blog entitled Finding Perspective that I read just before leaving the house. Not being up here in the city or being . . . → Read More: Gaining Perspective – Day 2 So excited I can barely write – that’s a good thing, right? Today I leave for Boston to teach my first week long Young Authors Workshop. As of last night we have seven third and fourth graders who want to spend their school vacation writing! Yes, eight and nine year olds who CHOOSE to spend . . . → Read More: iTeach Kickoff! That’s right. I forgot. I forgot how hard it was to write lesson plans, create learning centers, and gather up all the materials. I am teaching my Young Authors Workshop in Boston next week during school vacation. I have six little gifted authors and want to give them a great writing experience. Two months . . . → Read More: I Forgot! If you click on the “I Practice” icon in the upper left of my blog page, (link for those reading on the Cape Cod Children’s Writers page) Another Day Goes By you will be amazed at the wonderful writing education you could get at this site. I get them emailed to me everyday and I . . . → Read More: Four Simple Words…Who Knew? |
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