by AuthorSue | Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorised
I love year-end lists. I read them even if I’m not interested in the subject, just for the wonder of it, like The Year in Potatoes, or Messiest Celebrity Break-Ups of 2019. So I look forward to my annual list of what I read each year. I hope you’ll find it...
by AuthorSue | Nov 13, 2019 | Uncategorised
photo thanks to weareteachers.com Last week I shared some thoughts, via Philip Pullman, about the importance of kids’ access to stories and poetry. Today, I can take this even further when I share with you an article from the Gallup Poll blog called Teachers Who...
by AuthorSue | Oct 30, 2019 | Uncategorised
Okay, I’m a geek, but two things I think about quite a bit are creativity and neuroscience. In my own writing and my teaching through Writing Through, the question often arises, how does someone be creative? What is that spark and where does it come from? My own...
by AuthorSue | Oct 23, 2019 | Uncategorised
I wrote my first blog post nearly twelve years ago. Much has happened since then, of course, and my blog has reflected it all. Recently, the reflection is a sporadic shimmer – that is to say, every once in a very long while I’ll post something and then...
by AuthorSue | Dec 18, 2018 | Literacy, novels, reading, Writing
Well, let’s face it. 2018 was a pretty terrible year in lots of ways. There were two interesting results of it all, though. First, I barely did any creative writing. Yes, I wrote magazine articles, fundraising proposals, administrative memos, thousands of...
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