Where No Pie Belongs
Getting Ready to Teach I’m in my classroom, trying to muster up some flair. And then, I see a student has baked two pies to
November 12, 2010
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Live With Flair
(my daily blog)
The Bored Student Speaks!
My I-Really-Just-Don’t-Care student hands me some of his writing to read. He’s typed eight single-spaced pages. I didn’t assign him this project. He wrote something
October 12, 2010
How to Handle Another Rejection
This morning, I get another rejection for this one novel that I just loved writing. I thought it was so clever, so unique, so compelling.
August 19, 2010
My Extraordinary Night Out
What happens when you don’t need to find the extraordinary moment in the common thing because, well, everything around you is already packaged and delivered
July 11, 2010
Can You Remember Your 8th Grade English Teacher?
I’m chopping romaine lettuce this morning, and all of a sudden, I’m back in 8th grade. It’s 1988. My teacher, Mrs. Guiles, tells the class:
June 27, 2010
5 Ways to Write with Flair
If I’m going to live with flair, I have to think about communicating with flair. Most of us will have thousands of occasions for writing
April 18, 2010