Most of us are brown and green. Like the bushes I saw tonight. Parts are brown, crumbly, forgettable. And parts are green, new, juicy, exciting. Living things are also partly dead. I’ve been trying to get my creative writing students to write descriptive detail. So I noticed, on my walk tonight, that forsythia has petals […]
Read More Brown and GreenThe National Writing Project has a suspiciously vague name, and does suspiciously vague things. focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation’s educators on sustained efforts to improve writing and learning for all learners. They “focus” teachers on “efforts to improve writing.” Using our federal tax dollars. It sounds like a lot of liberal […]
Read More Why We Should Fund the National Writing ProjectShe couldn’t walk, and she yearned for an unabridged Oxford English Dictionary. This was at the tail end of the OED existing in book form. All those huge, expensive, books, guarding the history of English like a dragon. She taught me what it was, and then I loved it, too. She was stuck in a […]
Read More UnicornI went home after Ash Wednesday service and baked chocolate-chip cookies. They gooed and fell apart as I was eating them. They were still hot. I used to feel reverent abstaining from pleasures for Lent. This year I felt reverent eating chocolate. I like to get into complicated political and religious discussions. In such a […]
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