Spoken Word Poetry: “Shrinking Women”

One of my students is doing a creative thinking project on the problem of awareness of eating disorders. Because I’ve been on the lookout for resources that pertain to my students’ topics, this spoken word performance by Lily Myers at a college poetry slam caught my attention this week. Her insights into some of the …

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Embrace Your Inner Procrastinator

Do you have a tendency to procrastinate, or do you like checking things off your to-do list? I’ve waited until after supper to write my daily post and am using a NaBloPoMo question prompt from two days ago because I don’t have a topic prepared. Yes, I must admit I have a tendency to procrastinate. …

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You May Like … NOT

As I was checking the local weather forecast this morning, getting ready for an arctic blast that will sweep through the Midwest in the coming days, I happened to see this at the bottom of the page: You may like? Really? An alien sent from another planet to observe my morning reading might assume that …

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