Rus VanWestervelt's latest work, 2732 Prisms of Love-Stained Light, is scheduled to launch worldwide on 21 December 2021, but you can pre-order your copy today through December 15 at a reduced price. Benefits of preordering include: - Personalized copy signed by the author - Price reduced to just $11 for hand-delivered copies - Shipping only … Continue reading Now Accepting Pre-Orders for 2732 Prisms of Love-Stained Light
Teaching
Understanding and Embracing the Power of Revision
Many years ago, Sharon Miller, National Writing Project Teacher-Consultant and nationally recognized author and educator in the teaching of writing, asked me to offer my thoughts on the power of revision in the genre of creative nonfiction and how, when we write with intent in the revision process and understand who our audience is, we … Continue reading Understanding and Embracing the Power of Revision
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Challenger: 73 Seconds Define 30 Years
Dateline – Tuesday, 28 January 1986. 11:35 a.m. I’m upstairs in my bedroom, cramming the last of my new textbooks in my bag, grabbing a few extra pens and my journal, and checking my look in the mirror: clean-shaven, every single hair gelled in place, and wearing a white oxford with a blue Hugo Boss … Continue reading Challenger: 73 Seconds Define 30 Years
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Wandering to Fifty: My Secrets of Life
I've included some of my favorite photos that I've taken over the years; it's not that they are terribly relevant to the content of this post...I just think they capture my life over the last fifty years. So this is what 50 feels like. I have this urge to knock over a food display at … Continue reading Wandering to Fifty: My Secrets of Life
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Why I Love Teaching (#LoveTeaching)
Looking for Sage Wisdom More than anything else, I remember his face, ripped with an ugly mash up of dull red stress and those deep lines of resigned anger in the corners of his eyes, along his forehead, and drawing down at the tips of his lips. He pushed his cart from one classroom to … Continue reading Why I Love Teaching (#LoveTeaching)
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You Aren’t Going Back. You Are Already There
School resumes tomorrow. Earlier today, I could feel some anxiety rising--that feeling of stress and the fast pace that keeps you moving non-stop through six periods and 140+ students as you juggle and manage and direct and teach and coach and listen and-- So overwhelming, when you look at it like that. Isn't it? Heading … Continue reading You Aren’t Going Back. You Are Already There
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A Chill In August (Re)Ignites The Fire To Teach
It reached 77 degrees today, on this, the 24th of August. Blue sky, patchy white clouds, and the eerie absence of a Baltimore humidity that makes thousands of locals usually proclaim, “It’s not the heat; it’s the humidity.”In Baltimore, it’s been neither this summer; just one late-spring day after another. Heat waves have lasted hours, … Continue reading A Chill In August (Re)Ignites The Fire To Teach
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Are You Ready to Publish That Best Practice?
This Summer, I will be teaching another graduate writing course at Towson University. The beauty of this course? It's online, and it's all about you. The Maryland Writing Project (MWP), which has been recognized as an exemplary site by the National Writing Project in Berkeley, CA, enters its 31st year providing writing instruction and its … Continue reading Are You Ready to Publish That Best Practice?
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Presentation: Maryland Writing Project Write-To-Learn
This morning, I led a workshop on metacognition and daybooking. If you attended this morning's workshop or are interested in learning more about this, you can download my Powerpoint presentation here. Feel free to email me with any questions at all. MWP MetaJournals
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Flowing with Van Gogh
I was struck this morning by the satellite image of the three storms brewing in the Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center is predicting an above-average likelihood for storms to hit the east coast this year, making the stretch between North Carolina and Massachusetts as likely to get hit as Florida or the other Gulf … Continue reading Flowing with Van Gogh
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