my mother never wore makeup.
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from members of the VerbTribe here on 37days–pieces they have written during the time we have gathered as a …
addicted to busy.
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am going to feature writing from members of the VerbTribe here on 37days–pieces they have written during the time we have gathered …
my purpose will be there tomorrow
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am going to feature writing from members of the VerbTribe here on 37days–pieces they have written during the time we have gathered …
leap is a verb.
Tomorrow at this time, I’ll be soldiering up to leap off a tall platform on a trapeze bar. I imagine I’ll look just like that <——–. What is your leap for Leap Day? What scares you? Leap into it. Go. Also, on Leap Day (2/29), the Early Bird …
poetry wednesday : please do stumble from your cave
From Out the Cave by Joyce Sutphen When you have been at war with yourself for so many years that you have forgotten why, when you have been driving for hours and only gradually begin to realize that you have lost the way, when you have cut hastily into the …
change your verbs, change your life.
I just want to share with the group that my life is changing because of this course. I don’t know what else to say. Everything is changing. My feelings about certain things are no longer so ambiguous. Life is richer. I am less afraid. -KiKi L’Italien We’ve just hit …
happy birthday to the real johnny.
I know I joke a lot about Johnny Depp. And I write about Johnny Unitas a lot. And Johnny Appleseed. And Johnny Cash. But the fact is that there is only one Johnny. My Johnny, Mr Brilliant, the father of our two amazing girls. And today is his birthday. (And …
what i’m reading now.
I used to read one book at a time. Start, read, read more, sleep, read more, finish. Linear like. One page, the next. Now I don’t read just one book at a time, no. I think it is these 20 years of living with Mr Brilliant that has finally done …
poetry wednesday : things competing to happen.
The Edges of Time It is at the edges that time thins. Time which had been dense and viscous as amber suspending intentions like bees unseizes them. A humming begins, apparently coming from stacks of put-off things or just in back. A …
