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”
Author Archives: Carie Juettner
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”
Book Title Poems From a Stormy Night
Last night, thunderstorms and a pot of evening coffee proved to be the perfect combination for pulling books off my shelves and making some more book title found poems. Here are a few of my latest creations: The Arrival In the lake of the woods, strange little girls wait ’till Helen comes out of darkness (beautiful darkness)Continue reading “Book Title Poems From a Stormy Night”
Carie Juettner 