I’m a high school English teacher and love summer break as much as my students do. Summer is for fun. Summer is the time to relax and recharge. Summer is socializing, exercising, and napping. Summer is the time to read more books. Summer is the time to write a book. Continue reading “Summertime Writing Time is Hard to Find”
I love the sound of my own writing voice. I can listen to my composed words all day long, like a favorite Bruce Springsteen song. I especially enjoy reading aloud to myself. During these private performances, I literally laugh and cry at my own words, pat myself on the back, and swoon over a lovely phrase. What I adore most about my writing voice is how lyrical, poetic, punny, and funny I think it is.
Continue reading “I Love my Own Voice: Confessions of a Narcissistic Writer”
I am not a tech savvy person. Quite frankly, I feel like Wilma Flintstone when it comes to staying caught up in the information age. One might think that I’d be more like Jane Jetson.
After all, I am a cyber teacher, run this blog, teach at an iPad high school, can publish online school newspapers, and live with a techie husband and two teenagers whose thumbs can text a novel before I can get my iPhone friend Siri to define “streaking” on Snap Chat (FYI – does not involve opening up a trench coat to your birthday suit). Continue reading “Technical Difficulties: Building a Blogging Platform, one Story, Tweet, and Pin at a Time”
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