I rarely write a slice ahead of time, but my book club retreat on Friday calls for me to plan ahead. I chose to glance back at my writing on March 15th through the years with an accounting of the main topics of my slices:
2012 Hope Springs Eternal - cockeyed optimist embraces new day (haiku)
2013 A Frenetic Slice - work first, then the reward
2014 Surrendering to Joy - a white flag slice or when a teacher surrenders
2018 Read by Numbers - How many books did I interact with in one day?
2019 A Call to Action - climate change on Poetry Friday
2020 Padlet Power - a post about being "padlet happy"
2022 My RSVP - responding to Leigh Anne's invitation
2023 Kitchen Memories - remembering the kitchen of my youth
# of Slices by Topic
Reading/ book love - 3 (no surprises there)
Poetry - 2
Book club retreats - 2
Memories of childhood - 1
Adventure with a friend - 1
Classroom whistlers - 1
Padlet creations - 1
RSVP to a fellow slicer - 1
If you'd like to read one of my more humorous slices about teaching, check out "A white flag slice" from ten years ago in Surrendering to Joy. It's just a paragraph long, but captures a joyful interlude from my classroom.
Neat idea to look back through the years on a certain date to see where you’ve been in your writing on March 15. That’s quite a history you have!
ReplyDeleteWasn't it fun to create this post? I made a similar post the day before and I loved the time travel.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I wonder how this might look in a word cloud…..
ReplyDeleteA fascinating chronicle of posts on this day, Ramona - I laughed out loud at "I don't even have an Uncle Frank!"
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea for a post. I have told my self to look back to my early posts for idea but I never do. This was fun to see!
ReplyDeleteOoh, as a data nerd who also loves to write I LOVE this format! This is year 9 for me (I think?) and I’m going to add this to my mental filing cabinet of ideas to try.
ReplyDeleteSo March is a month for book club retreating, it sounds like. Enjoy! I loved reading about the whistlers in your classroom.
ReplyDeleteI love this slice ... and I might grab this idea for later this month! It's fun to look back and see what we sliced about in the past.
ReplyDeleteNo so anonymous. It's me!
DeleteRamona. this slice is filled with your memories and a fun-to-read post for me. I may even try creating one. I'm off to read your white flag slice.
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