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You know it. That time in between. The storm has quieted. The rain has stopped. But the rainbow has not yet appeared. What do you do in this in-between time? You can’t sit on the patio because the furniture is wet. You can’t lie on the beach because there is no sun. You’re done . . . → Read More: That Time In Between I have cited my writer buddy, Keith Jennings, and his Sunday essay, Root Notes, a few times in this blog. Keith is another writer, whom, over the course of time reading his work, I have come to trust. I trust his words. I trust his ideas. I trust his inquires. Why is that so? What . . . → Read More: Almost Crippled 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 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 is the photo of the suspect after he placed the backpack bomb beside Martin and his family. After all is said and done and prayed for and captured, there is still a lot of inner processing left in the aftermath to do. This photo smacked me hard – harder than all the rest . . . → Read More: Remind Me 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 …then there was today. Yesterday was day 4 of my Young Authors Workshop. The children were very excited because the next day they were doing “author readings” in the store and the local newspaper was coming. They spent the better part of the class finishing the illustrations for their books they were going to share . . . → Read More: First There Was Yesterday… 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! |
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