Today has been a worker day. First thing, I finished up the Inbox Ideas section on Summer Reading (rough copy). It will go out tomorrow afternoon. I updated and edited a calendar entry on Yusef Komunyakaa. It had been cut…
Category: Personal Journal
Geography Club
X-posted to teenliterature Geography Club by Brent Hartinger. HarperCollins, 2003. In this young adult novel, a group of students gathers to form a geography club, “a club that’s so boring, nobody would ever in a million years join it” (63).…
Turtlepoet
If last weekend I was speedwriter, this weekend I seem to be turtlepoet. Every line must be just so. Every blessed word must be right before I can go on to the next. I started with a chapter that had…
TengrrlFeed
So based on Perci‘s suggestion, I’m going to stop updating the LiveJournal. I made a feed of my Blogger site to LJ (TengrrlFeed), and that’s all I need. Besides having a FEED is so making me think of MT Anderson.…
Unpredicted Developments
Well, I’ve been somewhat less productive today, compared to yesterday. Yesterday, I somehow worked on 4 different projects, turning in all the proposals, revising and editing a lesson, AND I think I republished my blogger site at least 2 dozen…
Digital Divide + Pyramid = Rotund Sphere
The Washington Post article You Are What You Click includes a number of quotations on how the digital divide limits the Health Department’s method of educating the world about its new pyramid scheme.
RWT Lesson: Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser
I just finished editing Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser. Okay, maybe it’s not what you’d use in your typical writing class, but it does play with visual analysis. From there you might go on to…
My Kind of Blogger
You Are a Snarky Blogger! You’ve got a razor sharp wit that bloggers are secretly scared of. And that’s why they read your posts as often as they can! What kind of blogger are you? I blame Clancy.
No Comment
I will not listen to evil spawn of the devil who say that I must have comments. I will not listen to evil spawn of the devil who say that I must have comments. I will not listen to evil…
Indecent Proposals
I have written three proposals in the last week. Together I think there are fewer than 15 pages, but it feels like I’ve been writing all day, every day just to get those few pages. Heck, two of them are…