Canoe trip

No, we did not run into the threatening dead vegetation ahead. Some serious physics allowed us to simultaneously slow the canoe and turn right in an evading manner. It was only LM and me this time, as HD was coordinating some volunteers who were helping with the museum grounds' upkeep.

Read a lot of student writing today, some quite good, some not so. The range never ceases to amaze me. I want to pepper the good writers with questions: do you read a lot? did you have an excellent English teacher in high school? are you highly conscientious, and revise your homework till the wee hours of the night to get it right?

Maybe if I understood how the good ones do it, I'd know what to say to the ones who struggle. But not today. Today I just know that some of them get it, while others don't.

Speaking of writing, this blipping business is surely helping ME to write better! Even though these are bite size pieces, I get to work on my voice daily. Some days are good, some are flat, but I show up just the same. Gotta do something, no?

Maybe I should require all of my students to join blipfoto...