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Monday, October 02, 2006
Back to School with MomsWrite
10/02/2006 01:14:00 PM
Back to school means: plaid dresses with white collars; white sox and brown leather sandals; a white wool cardigan; plastic pens and pencil holders with a zipper; three-ring notebooks; the luxury of new colored pencils and pens; lunchboxes; the sound of wax paper unwrapping tuna fish sandwiches; apples; raisins; milk in a little cardboard container. And above all, excitement and fear. Hearts pounding; Enormous high ceilings and big desks. Where do I put my cardigan? Where do I put my notebook? Will I sit next to someone I know? Do I know anyone? Scary. Exciting. Like pushing on a canker sore. Feels good. Feels awful. Eeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!MomsWrite is back in session! Guess what we did our first meeting? All the students brought in school supplies and dumped them in the middle of our writing circle. One student brought Jelly Bellies for all of us. The favorite flavor was lime. We read Barbara Crooker's poem "The Blue Snake Lies Curled in My Bowl Like Oatmeal" and other poems about going back to school. And then we wrote. And then we read. Wow! The variety of writing, the flavor of the language -- they were as varied as the Jelly Bellies.
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Author: Rachel Iverson | Author's Email: rachel@racheliverson.com
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Thursday, April 06, 2006
MomsWriters Begin Writing
4/06/2006 02:29:00 PM
A group of mothers met for the first time this morning in New York City, and we started a creative journey together. Some of us are established writers, and others of us are still finding our way back to the page. But today, we showed up and in two hours, we discussed motherhood and writing, we read excerpts from Anne LaMott’s Operating Instructions and most of all, we wrote. As we read our work to each other, we began making space for our own creative lives in the too-often too-hectic daily life of being a mother.Bravo Mothers!
Author: Rachel Iverson | Author's Email: rachel@racheliverson.com
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