Box 57 & Beyond
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For me, on deck circles is another way of saying lists, of saying things to do or write about later. If you have these lists, you’re never completely stuck, and you never have to start from scratch. I plan to write about these things soon:
Jimmy Carter, E.B. White, William Stafford, Yogi Berra, educated decisions, singing, […]
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I am a guy who wanders around looking for nothing in particular, which is to say everything; in this frame of mind I have seen many things, in many venues urban and suburban and rural, and while ambling in the woods I have seen marten kits and three-legged elk and secret beds […]
I listened, wrote it down, thought about it, and years later after writing about donkey basketball, I think I have the answer. The answer to this:
“What if you do your best and it don’t do nothing?”
– Kagman High School Senior 2010
It will do something. It is true, of course, that when […]
I teach at a school. Students ask questions. This is good. Some questions I keep answering over and over again. Sometimes the questions are so good they warrant a thoughtful answer. So good, in fact, that I never get around to answering them at all. One of the first tasks of this school year was […]
I laugh a lot at school. Some students think I’m crazy. Sometimes I will spend a minute laughing about something. Or two. I’ll watch the clock and go with it. I tell my students it’s because of dramatic irony, because I know things they don’t. The laughter is compounded because many of them won’t believe, […]
So I have this coupon. Feels like I have always had it; I keep finding it in my pocket, or as a bookmark, or in a manila folder with other papers, or wherever else. I don’t remember how long I’ve had it, or what it is for, or was for, or any of that. I […]
This is the soft opening of the blog category: APPRECIATION
This category will end up being explanations of things I like and why. It is similar to what the blog 1000awesomethings.com was all about, or stufffwhitepeoplelike.com, or many other projects like this. My primary goal here is to show my writing process (see: LIST.STAR.TALK.WRITE.) and choose […]
This is the process I use when I write just about anything. Not sure where all the ideas originated, though they seem rather obvious and inevitable to me at this point. I almost always start with a
LIST.
Think of the list as your prewriting, all the possible ideas, all the possible things you can say […]
LIST #4 OPINIONS
This is a list of opinions, things you believe, or things you feel strongly about. These are likely topics that you could use in persuasive or argumentative writing or speaking. A quick way to get at these is to complete the following sentences in as many ways as you can:
I believe….
[…]
LIST #3 STORIES FROM OTHERS
These are stories that you probably have to tell in the third person. These are stories, or scenes, or anecdotes, or events that someone has told you. Or they are from movies, or books, or television shows. If the primary source is not you, and you like it, than you […]
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