Jane’s Meme: Learning to Write

My friend Jane invited me to her meme about learning to write. The assignment is to write about three contradictory practices that helped in my development. Mine aren’t necessarily contradictory, just not obviously connected, but they overlap quite a bit.
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I aced my senior composition project in high school. Grades don’t necessarily reflect what students learn, [...]

The Great Chain of Being in Contact

My friend Jane posted this on my Facebook wall: “Had a lovely imaginary conversation with you yesterday, which made me think it’s time for a real one.” Which brought to mind categories of conversations.
Face-to-Face: Or F2F. This kind of conversation happens in real time. You get to experience the facial expressions and gestures of the [...]

Vi-Char’s Customized Mish-Mash

Jane and I are in Vermont to attend a workshop on disabilities training, which begins tomorrow. We’ve managed to get in some talk about writing and life and general gossip, but she has to respond to papers. Witness how diligently she works.
Meanwhile, I am working on an outline. My deadline: June 30, or thereabouts. Actually, [...]

Jane’s School Bag Meme

Jane invited me and some of her other buddies to play Show and Tell, or perhaps a better name would be Spill It. On her blog, she shared a lovely photograph of the miscellaneous in her school bag (her stuff is so photogenic) and catalogued the items. There’s her stuff for all the world to [...]

TTFN, Darling

Just a few days ago I was anticipating the arrival of Jane and her husband Jimmy. They visited this weekend to see the production of Fiddler on the Roof that my partner, Doug, directed. They arrived on Friday, and we spent Saturday driving around, talking, and writing before going to the show in the evening. [...]