More Penny Inspiration.

I’ve been wanting to write a “Where I’m From” poem for many years now.  Originally inspired by George Ella Lyon’s poem, shared in a workshop by Georgia Heard, then by Stacey, and most recently by Penny Kittle.  I finally bit the bullet, because I want to share it with my high school class next week [...]

Preview: Reluctant Writers’ Self-Reflections

I’ve been going through some of my former students’ end-of-year self-assessments in writing (adapted from Buckner’s Book Notebook Know-How) that were completed in June 2007. I’m doing this to find just a couple of good quotes about the way that my reluctant writers transformed, in their own eyes. Here’s what the most reluctant [...]

Turning a Quote Into a Patch of Thought

Today was the last day my students were collecting patches of thought for their personal essays. This is a copy of the end-of-the-workshop teaching share that I did on how to turn a quote into a patch of thought (the first one was done in conjunction with the student whose thesis the Dangerfield Quote [...]

Memories of Snow Days

This week’s Memoir Monday Post was a cinch for me to do since I’m writing about my roots for the “Stories in Hand” Class I’ve been taking. I let my writing take me a little off-course from the prompt Sprague gave us, which was, “How much snow was there as a child?” I [...]

Join Us for Memoir Monday!

It’s time for our weekly Memoir Monday Challenge. (BTW: A new logo will be coming soon!) Please click on the image linky below to link your post to this one.