Author’s note: I shared these thoughts in part during the closing session of Hutchmoot, which is the weekend conference of the Rabbit Room community. If you don’t know what Hutchmoot is, you can check out the website here. For many of the Story Warren crew, it is a blessed time to be inspired and energized […]
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick: As Spooky As You Want Them to Be (and Maybe Not At All)
Usually Fridays at Story Warren are reserved for “shorts” — fun little stories and poems to share with the young ones in your life. In the spirit of masquerades, today’s Friday post is a Wednesday post (a recommended resource) wearing a disguise. If you’re a guest this year at our annual October 31st bonfire, you […]
Smells
In a writing class last fall, my teacher asked the class to recall a smell from our past. We then followed the memory wherever it took us. I was amazed at how vividly things came back to us. We were made with such a powerful sense of smell, inevitably tied to thought and memory. What […]
Pearls Before Breakfast
This week I began some more intensive poetry study with my literature students. It’s spring; we’re all getting itchy to be done with school; the flowers are blooming, and gosh I’m in a poetry mood. Fortunately, my last-August self had the foresight to plan poetry for this time of year because I knew that would […]
Baby Seed Song
One of my favorite quotes about spring is from Margaret Atwood: “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” Is anyone planting a garden this time of year? It takes patience to wait for those first green shoots to emerge from the soil. Imagine if you could overhear the […]
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