One of the things that I learned from doing the 2nd workshop assignment is something that I already knew, but…
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Yesterday my husband asked me about how my writing workshop/class was going. I told him that I’d turned in my…
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The Spanish class experiment is over, and I am relieved. It was interesting, but much more stressful than I anticipated.…
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Much to the disappointment of my mother, in high school I took Latin and Ancient Greek. She wanted me to…
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I’ve finally finished writing up the Chamberlain Basin trip that I took with my husband. I’m still picking away at…
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I feel pretty good about the first revision of my second story for class. And that’s actually a bit of…
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This is the last semester for my English Writing degree, and I have three class sessions remaining. At this time…
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I have a lot of work to do this month. At work, I have a variety of projects that I’m…
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I did not intend to take the class that I’m taking this semester. The class that I wanted to take…
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Today in class we took turns reading excerpts from our portfolio essays. I didn’t read mine. I hadn’t had a…
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