• Could behavior charts be doing more harm than good?

      When it comes to Twitter/X, I tend to be more of a lurker or a read-only participant. So when I do post things, I typically hear crickets. However, a couple of months ago, educator and author Shawna Coppola posted this question: “What did you used to do (and “used to”…

    • Reading in community

      On a whim last month, I posted a call on Instagram for anyone who wanted to do a book club with me. For almost 15 years I had a book club that read professional development books together, but now that most of the group has retired we’re reading “regular” books…

    • Secret mission

      Last week I went on a 7-day cruise to Mexico with my family and my sister’s in-laws. All together there were 27 of us on the ship. My cabin mate was my 6-year old niece. I was nervous that I’d become the constant babysitter to my roomie, but her mom…

    • Living a writerly life part 2

      Last week I wrote about daily diary idea I learned from Lynda Barry’s book Syllabus. Well, here’s how it went… I got really excited and set up a frame/template to use in my GoodNotes app with the intention of spending 5 minutes in the evening to complete my diary. Then…

    • Living a writerly life

      One of the things I appreciate about the March Slice of Life Challenge is that it really forces me to live a more writerly life. That is, it makes me pay attention and look out for possible writing topics all the time. What is happening? What am I thinking about?…

    • Could you just shhh…

      I fear I’m getting more curmudgeonly as I age. Going to the Hollywood Bowl during the summer is one of those things that make me grateful to be a Southern Californian. Nothing like packing a picnic, riding the Park and Ride bus up the hill, and enjoying an evening of…

    • Fireworks

      Thanks to Fran for inspiring this post. My neighborhood is one that really likes their fireworks. Like the first of the season will start to go off in June and the occasional leftovers will continue until about September. While it’s fun to watch them from our deck on Fourth of…

    • Lights out

      What is going on outside? Why does it sound like someone is doing light construction on the house at five o’clock in the morning? I laid in bed wondering if I should get up and investigate. Surely, my husband was already on it. Turned out he was the cause of…

    • Inertia

      Now that summer is upon us, I’m struggling to get things done. Not because I’m too busy, but because of physics. Newton’s first law of motion or something like that–a body at rest remains at rest. Turns out it’s a lot easier to check things off the to-do list when…

    • Lazy writer

      I’ve been thinking about this idea for a while now–the use of emojis as lazy writing. It’s a befitting topic for today because I’m feeling pretty lazy as a writer. So often I want to use an emoji as punctuation. While I know it’s commonplace to send them in a…

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