As I mentioned in Tuesday’s post, I always warm up with a writing prompt before I get to the current essay I’m working on.  We did this in Santa Fe over the summer, and for one of them our mentor gave us this prompt: Write for five minutes using only one syllable words.  Here’s what I came up with: My… View Post

My first project of the semester is due this weekend, and I thought it’d be fun to show you some of the tools I’ll be using as I try to put words into some sort of lovely coherent order. {Steadtler triplus fineliner pens} They’re the best and look at all the colors!  It takes me a good five minutes to… View Post

On a Friday after school let out, I met up with a boisterous and lovely group of five, six, and seven year olds to read a story to them. The story is The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau written by Michelle Markel and illustrated by Amanda Hall. A few months back, the editor at Christian Home and School, a magazine I… View Post

This is something I wrote from my first year of graduate school about Hadley dancing.  I’d like to share more about her performance on Friday night at the football game, but right now I need to let all of it simmer.  For now, here’s a little bit from an essay called “Grace on a School Bus.” “Today, I am standing… View Post

This is a little something I wrote for the girls’ schools’ Book Fairs that I thought I’d share here as well.   Do you want to know a secret?  I was never a reader.  I didn’t mind listening to stories but I hated to sit down and read them.  Do you remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books?  The ones with… View Post