Writing
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Is grading writing even possible?
I recently had a conversation with someone who didn’t know I was an English teacher. More accurately, I overheard a conversation in which one person said she liked writing, and the other person…
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Cultivating Young Writers
Last week at a homeschool gathering, I found myself between two mothers who were discussing writing curriculum. Neither of them knew I have an advanced degree in English, have taught at several colleges,…
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Authorpreneur
Authorpreneur by Jesse Tevelow is a book I read out of my continual inferiority complex about NOT being an entrepreneur like my husband. Entrepreneurs can take their natural gifts and hobbies and sell…
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Past in Present
Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how as I get older, I seem to know less. My core of certainties is smaller. I worry about things I didn’t used to even think about, and…
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Do the Work
I have the What’s On Your Nightstand roundup to thank for discovering Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work. The book is a short (it took me two sittings to read), snappy (you can see…
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What are the humanities worth?
From time to time I read articles about college and jobs. As my children are nearing college age, I always pay attention. For instance, this article in the Washington Post makes the point…
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Why bother?
“When we reflect that ‘sentence’ means, literally, ‘a way of thinking’ (Latin: sententia) and that it comes from the Latin sentire, to feel, we realize that the concepts of sentence and sentence structure…
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Threads of revelation
From time to time over the last few months, I’ve thought, “I’m done. My blog should be inactivated. I’ve dried up; there’s nothing more to say.” And yet… With the lack of regular…
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Anonymusing
We were working on our salad when he seemed to change the subject and asked, as we all sometimes do, about the role of moral authority in restraining a person from doing wrong.…
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Heroes Narrative
Barbara shared this blog post, in which I found the comments as interesting as the article itself — especially those by “Jonathan” and “Concerted Effort.” In one comment, this phrase “heroes narrative” is…
