Today’s Graduates: The Millennials

by Ruth Ayres

Found this clip from 60 Minutes on Lessons from the Scrapbook Page.  I think it’s quite insightful and would love to “hear” your comments.  Enjoy having your thinking pushed a bit.  Here’s the… Read More →

Ruth’s Memoir Monday: A Place

by Ruth Ayres

When we first started Two Writing Teachers, we kept it private for a bit.  We wrote and analyzed, wrote and discussed, wrote and tweaked and wrote some more.  Then we launched it.  One… Read More →

Ruth’s SOLSC: Keeping Company.

by Ruth Ayres

Sunday morning the little voice came to me through the monitor, “Momma, I’m uuuupppp.”  Since I was single-parenting-it (due to some massive sporting event in Indy that my husband was attending) and had just… Read More →

Happy Birthday

by Ruth Ayres

Will you do me a favor & pretend it’s Friday? Due to an unexplainable shoddy Internet connection, I was unable to post yesterday. Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday… Read More →

It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for the…

by Ruth Ayres

It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means! Time to link your Slice of Life Story by using this Mr. Linky Widget:

It’s the very first Memoir Monday!

by Ruth Ayres

Want to learn more about this Challenge? If so, click here. Need inspiration? Get started by reading this post and then writing down your own memoir-like entry. All set and ready to begin?… Read More →

end of year reflections.

by Ruth Ayres

Here in Indiana, we are wrapping up our school year.  That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, in ten more happy-wake-ups, school will be out for the summer!  Don’t the weeks leading up to the… Read More →

Ruth’s SOLSC: Lilacs

by Ruth Ayres

We traipsed out to the Lilac Bush, near the road.  Mom, with a sharp knife in her hand, me with scissors, Steph with sandals that blink with each step, and Sam running ahead then… Read More →

Meme.

by Ruth Ayres

Stacey tagged me, so here it goes. 1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. 2. Each player answers the questions about themselves. 3. At the end of the post,… Read More →

photos + words finale.

by Ruth Ayres

Let me just say that this week someone is coming to look at our home to see if we will be able to have high speed Internet.  Let me also say I may… Read More →

photos + words.

by Ruth Ayres

In response to Ali’s challenge this week, I’ve been thinking of stories which represent finding balance in life.  This has stretched me as a writer.  I find myself renewed by having a project to… Read More →

ruth’s solsc: home.

by Ruth Ayres

MOM! MOMMY! MOMMA! Three voices.  Three expressions.  Three times my heart is filled.  Am I really a mother of three?  Some things just take a bit of adjustment. And then the pitter-patter of… Read More →

words + photos reflection.

by Ruth Ayres

Stacey (who, in my opinion, is properly hooked on {A}) referenced Ali’s words + photo week in a previous post today.   I love how different blog posts and thoughts resonate inside of different people.  Stacey was inspired… Read More →

prompt scoring.

by Ruth Ayres

First day back . . . and I had the pleasure of working with all of the 4th & 5th grade teachers in our corporation to SCORE WRITING PROMPTS! (Does the emphasis of… Read More →

poetry friday: the dance.

by Ruth Ayres

Here’s an original for Poetry Friday (held at Big A little a).   Tonight we danced – No music No dance floor No heels We danced through the ritual of bedtime Each knowing… Read More →

happy may.

by Ruth Ayres

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is… Read More →

ugh –

by Ruth Ayres

Let me just say, I spent the past 38 minutes writing a post in response to the comments left on Monday Musings, while periodically going upstairs and explaining to a 4 year old the importance… Read More →

Monday Musings.

by Ruth Ayres

Happy Monday!  Sometimes I find myself editing the content of what I want to post because I feel this blog is more formal than the others in my life.  But today, I’m just… Read More →

ruth’s poem: 2 of 8.

by Ruth Ayres

New Family There used to be three – Now there’s five. There used to be quiet – Now there’s noise. There used to be tidy-ness – Now there’s clutter. There used to be… Read More →

ruth’s poem: 1 of 8

by Ruth Ayres

Changes Changes in the house Changes in the vehicle Changes in the schedule Changes in the shopping Changes in the routine Changes in the cooking all lead to the most important change: changes… Read More →