Anyone Else?

[petester1212]

            It’s amazing what ends up being a moment that defines your life.  You literally can never predict it.  Today, reading Ralph Fletcher’s book, (On promoting boys’ interest in writing in schools) I realized the exact moment when I became a writer.  It was a post on LiveJournal.  I was torn to pieces about moving on from high school, or

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[bigvinkes]

Seriously, all great points.

[petester1212]

I just think this could be a really cool opportunity for all of us to get back together and further ourselves as humans...

just a thought, though. I could see this fizzling. I guess a couple people have to check.

How's student teaching?

[bigvinkes]

Student teaching is going pretty well so far. It's nice being in a school full-time to see all the "behind the scenes" action and observing/interacting with students on a full time basis. My cooperating teachers are very nice, but both have different styles and they clash quite a bit with each other.

When do you start student teaching?

[mistagoodwin]

I forget who said this but I always thought it sounded true...

"language fosters reality"

Without creating concepts that help us divide the world into understandable entities, then we truly are left very limited. I sometimes liken a thought or idea to a piece of raw meat. And writing is the process through which we season, tenderize, cook and then are able to enjoy (or not enjoy) what we are left with.

I liked your post and I am glad to hear whats going on in your life. This is my first post onto anything LJ related in a long time. But obviously, I still check occasionally just out of habit.

[violescence]

Now I see why you were feeling nostalgic!

Thanks for the nice text messages. I definitely agree that livejournal fostered writing for a lot of us, and it's a good idea to get it going again... I may just join you. Happy teaching. :)

[orilladelmar]

I'm going to start. I already put something up that I just wrote up really fast... I like all your ideas :)