Happiness is: A new charger for my computer. A completed term paper for Huck Finn. A completed term paper for Catch 22. A complete term paper for Beloved. A warm bed waiting for me. The possibility of sleeping until at least 7 am. Yes!
Month: February 2012
Computer-less Until Tomorrow
Today, my computer’s power adaptor gave up the ghost (as my mother would say) and I am left to file my daily post on my phone. Needless to say, I will be brief. Cough is better. Two more term papers near completion. New adaptor hopefully arrives tomorrow. I am a woman lost without a compuer,…
Too Tired to Move Even My Fingers!
Eight hour of students today. That is a lot when you’re working one on one. Happy to head to bed. Toni Morrison and Beloved term paper complete. Huck Finn and Catch 22 well on their way. Also, met with the college brother of one of my high school students and we began researching the fast…
Flash Essay: Chest Cold, Students and the Oscars
I have a grand chest cold, one that causes me to seize up when I cough and rattle when I breathe. No fever, no aches and pains, just a cough that makes people instinctively step back, as if to say, “Please don’t give me whatever it is you’ve got.” Besides that, I saw students from…
Flash Essay: What I’ve Learned from Research about Huck Finn
I am helping one of my students with a term paper on Huck Finn and as part of the process, we’ve researched what inspired Mark Twain to write the books he did. Here is some of what I’ve learned: Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens) started Huck Finn in order to tell the humorous anecdotes he’d…
Great Post on How to Take Risks and Expand Your Writer Network
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Prompt: Haiku about Illness
Sick Sitting this morning Kleenex box right by my side …
Prompt: My Day in Verse
I am sick, have caught my husband’s rasping cough My throat is scratchy and my ears are itchy I don’t feel that bad so I saw all my students They moved away as I coughed We are in the throes of AP term papers Beloved and Catch 22 How different can you get? Oh, and…
Great Post: Take Your Writing Seriously, So That Others Will, Too – She Writes
Take Your Writing Seriously, So That Others Will, Too – She Writes.
Flash Essay Prompt: Ash Wednesday and My Modest Lenten Plan…
It is Ash Wednesday, and, yes, I have the ashes on my forehead now as I write. I will go up and wash them off before I go to bed, but now they are there, dark black with a big +. That means Lent has officially begun as of today and this is my only…
20 Minutes a Day 