Tonight my son’s homework assignment is to write the first draft of a mystery story. It’s to include dialogue, six of this week’s spelling words, and he’s to define character and setting. We’ve been going back and forth at the kitchen table for longer than you’d think it would take to write a page. My […]
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Writing Stories Together
Posted in Family, Having Fun, Motherhood, School, Writing on December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Barbeque Pie . . . or, How you know you’re not the same person you once were
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Personal Growth, Wisdom, Writing on September 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I had my second home-made peach pie last week, although this one was made by a good friend who cooks for a living, so I refrained from all pulls to compare hers to mine. She brought it over for a Labor Day BBQ, and it needed to be warmed before serving. After about an […]
Blank Page
Posted in Art, Isolation/Belonging, Poetry, Writing on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This first blank posting box reminds me of the blank pages that came before, then got filled with mediocre (at best) early poetry – always sad, heartbroken, the way to cultivate and nurture melancholy yet at the time I thought I would get it out, put it on paper, thus freeing me to move on to […]