Merely Day By Day

Book Baskets Stories rest here. Books waiting to be picked, chosen to be held, read with delight, talked about among friends, taken home. Baskets of red, blue, yellow, rest upon the shelves. Waiting to be carried to a quiet place. Waiting to carry readers        to places             beyond. © Cathy L. Mere  2014 I'm writing poetry for 30 days.  For the first seven days of the challenge I wrote about " objects of memory ," and then I wrote about " objects I just can't live without ."  For the next seven days I will be writing about objects that can be found at school.  This will help me to prepare for a little poetry writing with students.  Our class will be taking poetry around the building in the days to come.   April is  National Poetry Month .  Again this year, inspired by  Mary Lee Hahn , I'm joining other poetry bloggers (view links in...

It's  day 18 of the March Slice of Life Challenge .  We're more than half way through 31 days of writing.   Thanks to the amazing  Two Writing Teachers team  for all of their support in this event.   I'm enjoying a young blog called  The Lead Goose  by  Scott Jones .  On Tuesdays Scott always shares a tune and a story.  I'm not sure if the idea originates on his blog, but it is the first place I have seen it.  As I was driving to school today I heard the song, Happy by Pharrell Williams.  I don't know what it is about this song, but it makes me happy.   I doubt anyone can listen to it without starting to feel the happiness rise from her/his toes.  I knew as soon as I heard it the day would be filled with happiness.  The Happiness of a Stinky Lunch I hurried to get my lunch and get back to the classroom after recess duty.  I was looking forward to our Slice of Life lunch.  It wo...