I'm re-reading Ben Franklin's autobiography. If you have never read it, I highly recommend it. What an individual he was.
Here's an amusing quote from him:
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards."
Good writers usually read widely!
Monday, August 30, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
All aboard
Who knows where this journey will take us? Let's be brave and move forward.
I've been working on what I think may turn into a book about students. Or not. I have written 10 pages about a former student and events related to him NOT becoming a teacher. He got so close, but it took a turn.
I'm keeping a journal. Sometimes only through talking with other people can I figure out what needs to go in the journal. Or maybe through writing about an event, I realize that there's something important that I forgot to put in the journal.
For example, I was listing character traits to put in a poem. I realized that I forgot to put this in my journal at the time that it happened:
A male student who was working his way through a rough case of PTSD brought me an object one day. It was a nasty jagged heavy piece of metal. It was a part of the IED that had lodged in the side of his vehicle the day he was wounded. He keeps it on his bedside table as a good luck charm.
How could I forget to put that in my journal?
I've been working on what I think may turn into a book about students. Or not. I have written 10 pages about a former student and events related to him NOT becoming a teacher. He got so close, but it took a turn.
I'm keeping a journal. Sometimes only through talking with other people can I figure out what needs to go in the journal. Or maybe through writing about an event, I realize that there's something important that I forgot to put in the journal.
For example, I was listing character traits to put in a poem. I realized that I forgot to put this in my journal at the time that it happened:
A male student who was working his way through a rough case of PTSD brought me an object one day. It was a nasty jagged heavy piece of metal. It was a part of the IED that had lodged in the side of his vehicle the day he was wounded. He keeps it on his bedside table as a good luck charm.
How could I forget to put that in my journal?
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