Earlier I blogged about a writing task inspired by a visit to the post office. Last week I used it, and it went well. The kids had fun writing about programs like Monk, House and NCIS, among others.
But as I read their short paragraphs , I couldn’t help noticing how wordy they were. I did [...]

I was planning an inservice on writing for the faculty at my school. I had a double whammy against me: inservice is never popular, and inservice about writing, even less so. The time had come for the hardest part: an email to the faculty telling them what was coming and asking for their input.
I spent [...]

This morning I stopped at the post office to mail a couple of packages and buy some stamps. Larry was out of my favorites, the Liberty Bell “Forever” stamps; but he showed me something even better, the TV Early Memories series.

Source: usps.gov

The two of us exchanged a few television memories (How big were those [...]