Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Slice of Life

I signed up for Teachers Write, but haven't written very much since it began. A trip to Michigan for Nerdcamp was the first lovely and inspiring distraction.


The next was a trip to Indianapolis with my mother and sister to see my brother. Then, the three of us women went to Niagara Falls and Toronto.



When I arrived home from that week long adventure, I prepared to have my daughter home from her four week trip to Japan. She was bringing her exchange sister. We have been sight-seeing locally, but have also taken three different day trips to Minnesota, Milwaukee, and Chicago. It makes me tired remembering, but it also makes me happy.




I haven't had a lot of time to sit down and write, but one place where I can "write" is on my runs. I am training for RAGNAR which is a team relay race. My training days have been out of wack, but they have been happening for the most part. On those runs, I have a lot of time for thinking. I've brainstormed a few poems out there on the paths and thought a lot about my writing. With the girls away for part of the time today, I am hopeful that I will be able to finally write for a significant amount of time. In some ways, this break has been good since I am often avoiding my writing time or putting it off. I have missed writing. Absence has been working its magic. Today I am getting some words on the page!

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    1. Yes - it was fabulous to connect with Nerdybookclub friends and learn together.

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  2. I put so many of my writing and teaching ideas together on my runs! I just forget them all by the time I'm by pen and paper!!

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    1. There is that risk, but I have been doing okay with that so far. :)

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  3. Crystal,

    Running is also my time to think. I've never constructed poems or written in my head. Do you remember the poems upon the return from your runs? I feel like I would struggle to remember the way I worded them when I finally grabbed my pen and paper.

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    1. I remember the essence. A few times I have been kind of revising as I run thinking about words that would better express something in a poem that I have already drafted. It's not precise or even close to perfect, but it is a creative play time for my brain. :)

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