After a bit of a meltdown around noon, I’ve been sitting here at the computer trying to figure out chapter 4. Meltdown? Well, it’s just that I haven’t had a moment to write this week, even though I MUST finish…
Author: Traci Gardner
My Writing: Chapter 4 Unstuck?
I may (I hope, I think, I dream) be unstuck. I rewrote an ending for Chapter 3 and started trying to figure out the structure for Chapter 4. In total, I probably wrote only 3 or 4 pages over the…
Inbox: Coming Out in the Classroom
October 11 is National Coming Out Day, sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. This year’s theme, “Talk About It,” focuses on the importance of discussing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues openly and honestly. These NCTE resources explain…
My Writing: Stuck on Endings and Beginnings
Well, it appears that I am stuck. Chapter 3 is 45 pages long, but the ending just doesn’t feel right. Nor can I manage to figure out how to start Chapter 4. The two chapters need to connect to each…
My Writing: California English Submission on Pop Culture
So because I was supposed to be figuring out how to start the chapter that is nearly a month behind, I wrote an article to submit to California English instead. The Winter issue is on pop culture, so I tossed…
My Writing: (Or Not My Writing)
Suddenly this afternoon, as I was trying to clean up the deep piles of work in the office, I realized that I haven’t posted in a month. I’m not sure what happened. What a sinking sad feeling to realize that…
Daily Work: Ordering the Bifocals
My sister Kerri and I set out on an odyssey to get glasses this afternoon. Who knew it would be such a pain in the butt? I will NEVER go back to that store. I would have walked out early…
Daily Work: Seeing the Eye Doctor
I had my eye doctor’s appointment today. The verdict was that one of my eyes is nearsighted and one is farsighted. Together, they balance, and I can see just fine. I went to the doctor knowing about the nearsightedness, but…
Depression: When We Talk, Or More Accurately, Now That We Don’t
Apparently I shouldn’t listen to my iPod either… If I had my way I’d be in your town I might not stay but at least I would’ve been around Cause there’s something about what happens when we talk Something about…
Depression: Crying Over PostSecret (Again and Again)
Why do I persist in reading the PostSecret cards each week, when I KNOW that each week something there will make me cry?