Teaching
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Hysterical and True!
I love this. I spent two hours this afternoon trying to get a kid to speak with confidence and conviction. This is both funny and brilliant. Watch it. You know you want to.
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Remembering John
John and I at his retirement party during my 5-year reunion. The fourteenth of August was a sad day for me and today, the news is sinking in. One of my favourite people in the world has lost his fight with cancer. Many of my friends loved and respected John. For me, as has always been my way, the best I can do is write something and share it. I know John would approve, he loved the written word as much as I do. John Cawthorne was a pivotal person in my life. I never had him as a teacher, I couldn’t find the time to make it to Book…
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Writing, Life, and Questions
A couple of things, dear readers… November has snuck up on me this year. Normally, I’m doing NaNoWriMo at this point. I haven’t missed one since college. However, I don’t know that I’ll do NaNo this year. I think taking my focus off of what I’m doing to write 50,000 words (which turns into whole other books I need to finish and edit) is really doing myself a disservice this year. I don’t need another book in my head. I need to finish the one that I’m editing now and get the darn thing sent off already. If, instead of doing NaNo, I focus on editing (rewrites, the bane of…
