Creeeeeeeeak. [Sticks one arm tentatively inside. Feels spider webs. Flips out. Does hippity-hoppity screechy octopus-style dance move until all spider webs are off. [Reaches in with broom and clears entryway of cobwebs.] [Lights match. Sees angry homeless spiders. Drops match. Screams. Runs. Screams some more.] [Eventually comes back to make sure has not started fireContinue reading “Keeps Typing”
Author Archives: Carie Juettner
How Natalie Goldberg Turned Me Into a Thief
People say TV and video games are bad influences, but it was a book that made me a criminal. [This story was originally posted on my previous blog, The Black Cat Diaries, on March 4, 2013.] How Natalie Goldberg Turned Me Into a Thief Today I bought Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within byContinue reading “How Natalie Goldberg Turned Me Into a Thief”
Advice From a Teacher, Part 2: The Spiral
On Wednesday, I told my seventh graders we’d be starting our expository writing unit, and they groaned accordingly. I then proceeded to pretend that they were whining for no reason and that writing expository essays wasn’t really that bad and might actually be kind of fun. On Thursday, I put an outline of the expositoryContinue reading “Advice From a Teacher, Part 2: The Spiral”
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