College Essay Crunch Time

I am sitting here at 10 pm having just finished seeing my last students of the night. You can tell it is college essay time. No other time of year would I be working this late. The deadline for all the schools in the University of California system is November 30th, so there is a…

One of Those Days…

This has been one of those days. You know the kind – full of hurry, worry, planning and people. Too much to do in not enough time. Everything good, but filled with just enough tension to make it feel a little too hard. Yes, that’s been today. I am not going to write for 20…

Now I Am Really Finished!

You know when I said the Scholastic entries were all ready? Well, it turned out that they were not since one of my students ended up submitting five more entries. (This is a good thing.) However, between getting the Scholastic paper work done (read: ridiculous redundancies) and squeezing in a Fedex trip while working on…

My 401st Post and a Big Thank You

Switch Sexes and You Have My Current Life This is my 401st blog post, which seems amazing to me. I began this process a little more than a year ago to see how 20 Minutes a Day of writing might be helpful to my writing process. I would say so far it’s proving to be…