[What follows is an anecdote from my experience at the Books with Bite workshop at the Highlights Foundation earlier this month. However, it is also the personal narrative I’m writing with my seventh graders (because I like to multitask). The story is true, but some details regarding other participants and the events they shared haveContinue reading “Comfort in the Dark”
Category Archives: Halloween
Let’s Investigate That Strange Sound! (And Other Bad Choices During the Month of October)
October is here, and that means one thing: neck aches. Why? Because if you’re smart, you’ll constantly be looking over your shoulder. October is the month of Halloween. It is the month when spirits roam the earth, and the dead play tricks on the living, and creepy crawlies have their fun. October is also theContinue reading “Let’s Investigate That Strange Sound! (And Other Bad Choices During the Month of October)”
Where Did October Go?
I blinked and it’s November. Where did October go? One moment it was here, in the coyote’s howl and the spider’s skittering legs and the moon’s game of hide-and-seek, and the next moment it was gone like that shadow that lingers in the corner of your eye, the one you can’t quite catch. Those ofContinue reading “Where Did October Go?”
