Found|Read|Wrote March/April-ish

{FOUND} out that the way to get from West Virginia to Ohio is to cross this here bridge. The girls and I drove home from Raleigh last week and I’ve been thinking about the grace there is in a bridge that helps me get from one state to the next. Seems to me a sturdy bridge with a beautiful view of what’s behind, ahead, and right now is the way to keep going.

{READ} lots of picture books this month. I highly recommend I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark. Every child should read this book, and I’m half considering making Hadley and Harper memorize it. Did you know Ms Ruth Bader Ginsburg is left-handed and teachers tried to make her write with her right hand? She was failing until she up and said, “I DISSENT AND I’M GONNA WRITE WITH MY LEFT HAND.” OK, it’s written much better than that, but the nerve of some people trying to get left-handers to change their ways. Some of us have quite nice handwriting. Some of us have been told our handwriting looks like a font. Don’t try to give us those left-handed scissors, either. We know how to use right handed scissors, thank you very much. Don’t give us those jacked up scissors with the extra whatever that thingy is hanging off the side. Those scissors are nightmares. Give us the right-handed scissors.

I’m ashamed to say my reading game is off, and I miss it. I have a hard time writing if I’m not reading. It’s good to walk alongside someone who knows what they’re doing because it helps me keep trying. I did read Looking for Alaska, and please don’t unsubscribe to this blog, but I didn’t like it. Loved The Fault In Our Stars, and An Abundance of Katherines is my favorite John Green book. Nobody does teenage dialogue like Mr. Green, and clearly there is something wrong with me because Looking for Alaska won the Printz Award so I have missed something in my reading of the story.

{WROTE} “On Finding Stories – And Maybe Myself”, “Poets and Writers Toolkit: Play-Doh Creative Nonfiction”, “Kissing a Fair Dragon in His Cave” for TS Poetry Press. “Inheriting Trauma” for Good Letters. “Dancing on a Slippery Bridge” for Coffee+Crumbs. “This Is Only a Test” for The Cresset. 

Thanks for reading! Happy Spring!