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An Awesomely Surreal #Slice of Life – 19 of 31

Some days I feel like I must have the most active imagination ever. After all, I have had so many awesome things happen in the past couple of years that I can hardly believe my good fortune. And by my...

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Remembering London – #Slice 20 of 31

I got a present in the mail this week from my husband: a DVD of the Romeo and Juliet production we had seen at the Globe when we went to London to see friends and sightsee a few years ago. As we...

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Thursday Wishes – #Slice 21 of 31

Today is one of those days that I feel like I’m wishing at every turn. Wishing I could just stay in bed and read a book. Wishing that my husband had come across that dead mouse before I had. Wishing I...

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Cough Cough – #Slice 22 of 31

I thought we teachers were supposedly blessed with super immune systems. After all, we get exposed to a gazillion germs and only get sick once in a while. But not this winter. I feel as though my...

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A #Slice of Yoda-Speak – 23 of 31

I woke up this morning and settled in at my desk to a mountain of things to do. Hubs had a meeting with the rest of the spring soccer coaches. So the kid and I were home alone. Some days that means...

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Jammie Day Sunday #Slice – 24 of 31

Since I woke at 4 AM cough-cough-coughing, I didn’t feel much like going anywhere today. I helped get the guys off to church and crawled back into bed. That 4-8 AM time period was mostly spent reading...

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One Thing at a Time – #Slice 25 of 31

There is nothing like a good bug to slow you down when you need it most. Or least. I was looking at my to-do list for the next couple of weeks and it caught my breath to see what all I need to get...

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The Meanings of Words – #Slice 26 of 31

My brain has a whole bunch of  terms swirling around in my head tonight based on a whole lot of different conversations and things I read today. Standards. Rigor. Grades. Assessments. Evaluations....

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Writing Without a Model – #Slice 27 of 31

As I’m in the home stretch of Slice of Life Challenge posts for 2013, I’m thinking about how much easier it has gotten for me to sit down and write these than it was at the beginning of the month…or...

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The Thumper Rule #Slice – 28 of 31

How many of you have seen something on the internet today that was negative about something? You know, where someone who didn’t like or didn’t agree with something. Okay. You can put your hands down...

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One Focused #Slice: 29 of 31

I have found myself wasting minutes here and there lately – a game of Bejeweled Blitz or Color Grid on my phone, a bit of web surfing, scrolling through Facebook and Twitter.* It adds up over time. And...

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Sunshine #Slice – 30 of 31

I should be grateful that my plan for the day got all messed up. I was going to stay inside all day and cross some more work off my to-do-list – with one outside trip to get a replacement driver’s...

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Broken Hearted #Slice – 31 of 31

It’s Easter. It’s the last day of March and the last day of this challenge for 2013. Those things are good. Other things have not been so good. Things like my nephew telling me at the bookstore this...

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For the Love of Poetry

I feel like I have been a good day or two behind on everything this week, so I was grateful that Katherine Sokolowski shared this post from Teri Lesesne in my Facebook feed this morning. I might have...

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Becoming a Teacher

I had taken a bit of a break from writing over the past week.  I passed over ideas that I wanted to write about in the interest of Getting Stuff Done. (My sad little internal cheer for the week: No...

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Blank

There is this blank screen staring at me. Cursor blinking in a way that just seems so…judgmental. I have a thousand and one ideas floating around in my head and I can’t seem to latch onto one that will...

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Invitations and Encouragement

Last week I had a fantastic opportunity to spend time learning with my friends at All Write. Invitations seemed to be everywhere – rides to and from the conference (the short commute between the hotel...

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The Wee Small Hours of the Morning

I’ve been prone to fits of insomnia for nearly as long as I can remember. As a kid, I’d wake up and use the red glow of my digital alarm clock to read whatever book I had handy on my bedside table...

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No Pressure…Except What You Put On Yourself

Imagine you’re in a time warp. You’re really reading this on Monday. Because I meant to hit POST instead of SAVE DRAFT on Monday. Not Tuesday. I know you can handle this because you, my dear reader,...

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A Slice of Housekeeping

I wrote about my perfectionism and procrastination in my previous post – and there is a certain amount of those traits that cause me to react to housework the same as I do writing. I love a clean...

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