Baby Steps

My first "official" step as a writer was to join Teachers Write! at Kate Messner's website.  I was a little late getting started, but our first assignment was to start a writer's notebook.  I have one and have started writing in it.  Now it is decision time.  How do I want to organize it...baby steps!

Tuesday's assignment was to think of a place you love and start with,

Sometimes, .....

Sometimes, I sit at the top of the mound

overlooking our small town

the sun

slowly closing

its droopy eyes on the day

but notefore reminding me

with its hues of red, yellow, and orange

that today was a great day

and not before night

restores and refreshes

my mind, body, and soul

ready to start again.

A Day in the Life

This is it!  My first blog.  I have been reading blogs for a little over a year now and have decided to take the plunge....or maybe just stick my toes in the water, because I really have no idea of what I am doing.  It all starts with the first step....today.

I have been an avid reader all my life and share that passion with my students.  That's the easy part.  Writing on the other hand, is much more of a challenge.  When I was younger, I loved writing and I still do, but I just don't do it as often as I would like.  Maybe it is a fear of rejection or no one reading it.  I feel putting my writing out there is like exposing myself with only my fear to cover me up.

Hopefully this blog will become my place of freedom, a place for reflection of who I am, what I do and who I want to become.  It's my place...a day in my life...a day in the life of a teacher, a reader, and a writer.

Here goes....!