A Year of Reading

You can read my post here . Just so you know, pretty soon all of our new content will be over at A(nother) Year of Reading . But no worries....

Thank you Two Writing Teachers for saving me a spot in this amazing community of writers. It's been awhile... Thank you also to Kate Mes...

The other Lessons From Bike Rides are here I walked up to the door of the health club and saw the sign: Pool Closed for Repairs. There...

It was my longest bike ride so far this summer. We went all the way from home to beyond the Scioto Mile downtown, to the Scioto Audubon ...

I went for a bike ride this morning before it got too hot. I labored up a long, grueling hill with my eyes on the bit of the street jus...

SLICES OF LIFE , by Grant Snider ...for the rest of this visual poem, click here . Wouldn't it be fun to give stude...

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash We were taking a restroom break after the whole-school Town Hall meeting on Friday. Most of the clas...

I wrote a blog post last August about our "failed" fly fishing trip to Vermont . I decided that I wasn't going to let one...

Almost 20 years ago, we lived in a neighborhood with a magnificent gingko tree at the end of our street. It stood, not in a yard, but in ...

If I had known when we set out for our fly fishing trip to Vermont that I wouldn't catch a single fish, I probably wouldn't ...

One of the jobs on Mom's to-do list for me last week was to hem a couple of pairs of pants for her. I should back up to say tha...

I went shopping on Saturday for winter shoes.  I'm not sure if you've noticed, but boots seem to have taken over the shoe depar...

Thanks to Stacy and the team at Two Writing Teachers for hosting Slice of Life every week! Why I stopped pulling weeds. Can...

When my doctor  told me I'd have to take 6 weeks off school due to my never-ending concussion, I was not happy.  (understatement) ...

We are now a family with 2 dogs.  Deciding to get a puppy for our 14 year old was a big decision but the timing seemed right.  We have n...

If you are a student in my classroom, you know that every so often, I will yell out, “Has anyone seen my tea?”  My stude...

Ruth and Stacey at Two Writing Teachers have announced a great new March contest--"The Slice of Life" Challenge . They are chall...