I accept that it is going to be a few more days until I can connect my desktop. I accept that I cannot blog from school. I accept that I have a limited amount of time after school before morphing into Mom and am unable to go to a library to blog.
So I keep my slices the old fashioned way — on bits of paper that are part of my everyday life . . . a napkin, a reciept, the back of first grade math homework. I plan to email them to Stacey to post.
I’m flabbergasted that my school computer is slow and unable churn out email. I’m shocked that I’m this disconnected to the online world.
I’m techy enough to get by & can usually do the things I want to do . . . but hardware is not my thing. Connecting computers — enough to get by . . . but it’s not something I’m creative about. Until tonight.
Morphing into Mom tonight, I decided I would figure out away to get online. And in less than 15 minutes, I did it! Yippee for laptops! Yippee for logic! Yippee for my online community.
All this makes me realize how important it is to collect everyday slices of life. Looking at four of them together, collected on left over bits of ephemera gives me a better glimpse into my life. Experiencing the kinks of everyday life — for goodness sakes, I’m co-host of this challenge — gives me a better understanding of other people and the kinks in their lives. Missing the online world, gives me insight into the community that has developed there. Just because it’s not a concrete part of my everyday life, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist or that it’s not important. I’m a better teacher, a better writer, a better wife, a better mother because I collect, record, and share bits of my life.
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As I was reading the beginning, it reminded me of Kate’s work, where she repeats the beginning of sentences using the magic of three. It was fun to notice…
Also, I completely understand the desire to connect technilogically. 🙂
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It is really so frustrating to not be able to get online when you’re accustomed to it. I’m actually having the opposite problem: not enough time to write out my slices before posting them. I tend to write my posts and fuss with them on paper before I put them up online. It changes my writing when I compose on the computer. But I’ve been so short of time and energy so far in this challenge, that I’ve been pushed to write directly online.
Glad you’re back online. Here’s hoping we both find more time!
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What a wonderful writing process in the midst of your “morphing into mom”. Good to have you share this slice, Ruth,
Bonnie
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You want kinks? You’ve gotta read my Slice from yesterday… that was a big kink! Oye ye ye.
Glad you’re back!
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I love the way you summed up the slice. It makes sense that we collect moments, record them in our brains or on paper, and then share. Each part enriches the other. Thanks for sharing.
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Welcome back to the virtual world!
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Isn’t it strange how quickly we become used to something — ie, connectivity — and disjointed when it is not there. I love your insights into how it allowed you to step back and see things in a “real” way.
Kevin
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I understand the frustration with school computers. Thank you for collecting, recording, and sharing bits of your life.
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So glad you figured it out. I know how frustrated you have been without it! Will I see you tomorrow???? Let’s talk again, okay?
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