I want to concentrate on living a full life, not a busy one.
Category: olw
Anna’s One Little Word for 2015
This year, I vow to make each of my daily 1,440 minutes count. Here is the One Little Word I'll live by this year.
Winter Recess
The six of us will be celebrating holidays, recharging our batteries, and coming up with more posts to share with this incredible community of teachers and writers for the next two weeks. In the meantime, we have lots to keep you going over winter break.
One Little Word: Silence
Did you pick one little word this year? How's it going?
How Are You Living Your OLW?
How are you living your One Little Word?
Keeping a writing blog: taking our writing workshop online
With the  Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge  just around the corner, perhaps some of you are thinking more than ever about starting a class blog just for writing.   Over the past few years, we have taken our writer's notebook  online in my classroom, not just for the month of March, but for the entire… Continue reading Keeping a writing blog: taking our writing workshop online
Betsy’s One Little Word For 2014
come to my quietness I shall cover you with it, like a white sheet that has blown all day in the sun, like a mountain lake filled with spring, it shall slip over you. --- Diane di Prima
Stacey’s One Little Word for 2014
As teachers of writing, we must try to bring our truths to the page, even when it’s hard. I believe we must write from a place that shows our vulnerabilities. Even though sharing the story of my OLW publicly makes me feel vulnerable, I know sharing it helps me practice what I preach. So here goes...
Anna’s One Little Word for 2014
My One Little Word for 2014: Roots.
Dana’s One Little Word for 2014
I started thinking that maybe my dreams were a metaphor for the way I had been feeling… like I was drowning in the busy-ness of life, like I couldn't get my head above water. In that instant, my word found me.
Winter Break
We're taking off from blogging so we can spend the holidays with family and friends. We'll be back on Jan. 6th, 2014. However, the Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge will still go on!
July SOLSC #3 & OLW Check-In
Share your slices and/or your reflections on the one little word you choose to live by in 2013.