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Twitter, One Year Later
Image via CrunchBase A year ago, I succumbed to my curiosity and joined Twitter, despite deciding six months previously that it wasn’t for me. Since then, I’ve tweeted over 800 times and follow more...
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Jumpstarting My Writing
Image via Wikipedia As important as writing is to me, and as central as it is to my identity and conception of myself, when something has to drop from my daily juggling act, too often, it’s writing. So...
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Blogiversary
Image via Wikipedia Like Anjali, I recently passed my 500 post milestone for this blog, which I first posted in on July 12, 2007. That also means that my blog will turn five this summer, the same year...
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Writing on Values
Image via Wikipedia As any teacher knows, the best professional development either introduces us to a new idea/text or gives us an easily implementable classroom idea or assignment. I’ve had great luck...
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Getting Drafty
So far in April, I’ve written sixteen poems, following the prompts given at Poetic Asides for the 2012 Poem-A-Day Challenge, and including an additional tanka challenge. Now, have I written one each...
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Poetry as Journaling
One of the unexpected side benefits of my poem-a-day month has been that I have found myself using the poem prompts almost as I would journal prompts. You can look back over the 22 poems I’ve written...
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2012 in Review
In January, I was full of plans and goals. I designed a new class on Latin American Literature, made specific writing goals, and set about doing a massive book purge. I was unhappy with the amount of...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,200 views in 2012. If...
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Old Goals, New Goals
English: Two New Year’s Resolutions postcards (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The time for New Year’s resolutions has come around again, and I can’t resist jumping in, like I always do. However, I’ve made so...
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Post a Week 2013
Officially taking the plunge and committing to post once (or twice) a week in 2013, to help me get to 100 posts in the year. Come join me! Tagged: postaweek
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New Look!
You may have noticed that I’ve been tinkering with the look of my blog recently; I like to switch things up, and one of the reasons I love WordPress so much is their vast collection of free and...
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Literary Soaps
Title page from the first edition of the first volume of Pride and Prejudice (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Cotton candy soap inspired by Something Wicked This Way Comes, lilac soap for Amy Lowell, and...
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600
This post is number 600 that I have published on this blog; quite a milestone! As I saw the number approaching, I’ve also been doing a little reorganizing around here, editing pages, adding new ones on...
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My Favorite Pioneer Woman Recipes
Ricotta cheese. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Now, I know this might be controversial, but I still love Pioneer Woman. Yes, her folksy demeanor can be grating, and yes, many of her recipes have too much...
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Kvelling with Mayim Bialik
English: Mayim Bialik. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This may surprise you, but in many ways, Mayim Bialik and I have nothing in common. She has two boys, I have two girls. She is devotedly Jewish, I am...
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Blogging Makes Me a Better Teacher
education online (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) My recent post on beginning Persepolis generated a fair amount of comments among my Facebook friends, and an especially lovely one from a friend I...
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NaBloPoMo November 2013
NaBloPoMo: Glorious Madness (Photo credit: cizauskas) Time to recharge the blogging energies, so I’ll be doing NaBloPoMo for November. If I feel totally uninspired, I’ll find some useful blogging...
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Blogging Incognito
English: The logo of the blogging software WordPress. Deutsch: WordPress Logo 中文: WordPress Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I made the decision years ago to blog under my own name, and after thinking...
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NaBloPost more?
NaBloPoMo: Glorious Madness (Photo credit: cizauskas) Sometimes, it’s worth making the attempt even if you know you might fail. No, I’m not talking about the amazing Auburn/Alabama game last week,...
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Personal Goals, 2014
I’m sure I’ve blogged about this before, but I like thinking about “personal goals” more than “New Year’s resolutions”; I guess I’m like Ben Franklin that way! Here’s my list for this new year: Cross...
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