Epic Fail Reflection
After school ended in June, I set three summer goals. Every summer before I had written a long list of items to accomplish over the summer. Every summer I...
Tuesday Quick Write
Kate Messner hosts Tuesday Quick Write here. Slice of Life Challenge Please join the challenge over at Two Writing Teachers! Today’s quick write assignment is to choose a...
Finding the Beauty
Join us on Mondays at Jo Knowles blog for Monday Morning Warm-Ups! I’m excited to have joined Teachers Write Summer 2014! Please consider joining. It’s going to be challenging, but...
Family
I hope I’m not committing a serious faux pas by posting my celebration of the week a day late. If so, please excuse my newbie mistakes. Yesterday was...
Seems Like Old Times
Tuesday was Paris’s Freshman Orientation at JMU. Go Dukes! Being on a college campus brought on a flood of memories of my college days at Mary Washington. Thirty-two years...
Summer Exercise Goal
Goal #3 Exercise regularly So far, I haven’t been doing very well on my first two goals, but I’ve been kicking butt with my third goal! Specific: Exercise for...
Summer Eating Healthier Goal
Goal #2 Eating Healthier Specific: Try two new healthy recipes a week and incorporate the “winners” into our regular menu and add more fruits and vegetables to our...
SMART Summer Writing Goal
A few days ago I stated my three summer goals and included kindness as a theme. Today I’m framing the goals using the acronym SMART. I have to have...
Summer Goals
Photo Credit: Matthias Werner via Compfight After a busy school year, each summer I jot down a humongous list of things to do and I never get it all...
Shepherdstown Writing Marathon Reflection
Photo Credit: Vyacheslav Bondaruk via Compfight Write a reflection on the Writing Marathon you participated in on our field trip. Remember, a reflection is looking back at a past...