I come home from church ready to write the post I decided on during a wakeful period last night (it took me awhile to remember what it was), but it did come to me.
I notice an open window for Ms. Chiubooka Writes. I'm plagued this year with disappearing comments. I try again to leave comments on two different blog posts, but I ultimately put up the white flag and resort to the Contact button on her blog. Sheesh, I don't know what is happening! It's not like I'm a newbie at this game.
And then I notice another open window. When I woke up last night and couldn't sleep, I did not succumb to the siren call of Instagram on my phone. Instead, I looked at my sadly neglected emails, convinced that this task will definitely put me back to sleep.
I leave an open window to the Choice Literacy Special Edition: Spring Break. It's about thriving, a word I've often considered for my OLW. There's a letter from editor in chief, Ruth Ayres, an original co-founder with Stacey Shubitz of Two Writing Teachers. Ruth's letter is followed by five completely free articles (for the next week). You'll want to check them out.
I still need to read the fifth article, but I'm interrupting this rabbit hole to bring you this slice first.
My favorite article (so far) is Maintaining an Adult Reading Life by Dana Murphy, who also used to write for Two Writing Teachers and sliced with us back in the day.
When I read Gretchen Schroeder's article, I click on her Instagram account, mrs_schroeders_shelves. It turns out that I already follow her! I click on The Correspondent book cover and find a blog post about letter writing on her blog, "Spontaneous Delights" (don't you love that name?).
Then I force myself to write today's slice, saving that last article/rabbit hole for later today.
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