Dare2Write

We did it! We dared to write. Feelings, memories, experiences, poems, six-word memoirs... Slices of our day and slices of our lives....

T I R E D T E A C H E R Time for bed. Batteries are low, time to recharge.

Family first. Love, communication, memories, laughter.

There are these things I still have from my childhood. A Holly Hobbie doll. This is the first doll I remember having. A Fisher Price...

I am not a big movie watcher. I have to really want to see a movie in order to devote a few hours to it. This weekend, I watched CODA....

I don’t want to go outside, in the rain at 2:30 in the morning. Man’s best friend does not always behave like one. Last night my 14 year...

Orange skies leave a glow, A fierce storm followed by a rainbow. Red and gold leaves color the day, A full moon takes your breath away....

It seems like a good idea, then you take a look. Ugh, that’s awful! Every spot, every wrinkle. Delete. Do over. Click. Yuck. Selfies are...

Adios winter! While the calendar says today is the first day of spring, I know we are most likely not out of the woods yet. We are likely...

There I stood, battling against the clock, waving the white flag, and begging for mercy. ”Please spit it out, please. Nooooo…don’t do...

She was just fifteen years old when she left Ireland to travel to America. The year was 1923 and her name was Margaret Ann McCaffrey. She...

Pulled into the school parking lot today and out of the corner of my eye I saw a splash of red. A cardinal was there to greet me as I...

The lights, the crowd, the energy. I sure am missing the sound of live music. I’ve been a concert-goer since I was 14 and saw Bon Jovi....

Anyone who knows me, knows that I have a burning desire to travel. It’s a part of me. I get this feeling that I need to be somewhere...

Tonight I made rigatoni bolognese for dinner, a family favorite. Soon after we started eating, my son’s girlfriend, who was joining us...

I’m not a rose girl. Tulips are pretty, but not for me. My flower of choice is the sunflower. Every time I see sunflowers, I feel happy....

The days are getting longer, the weather is unpredictable. There is talk of end of year activities and the paper in the copier is blue....

There is a different feeling in our classroom this week. On Monday, half of my students arrived without masks. You could tell they felt a...

Every year I introduce my fifth grade writers to an ouch map as a way of gathering ideas for personal narrative writing. I show them the...