OHMYWORD! I am JUST LIKE MY STUDENTS!!!
So I started and forgot and procrastinated and forgot and really-meant-to, and here we are, two days into Part 2 of Summer 2014 and I thought I'd be long-since done with my 20-blog challenge, but no. Bless.
So that's how it happens. I'd call this little experiment a success so far.
Normally I take the first two weeks of summer to recover... sleep, clean, organize, clear off the dining room table, and plot the rest of the summer. Then I go on vacation. This year we skipped vacation. I felt sad about that for Zane, since we went to Disney the summer after Kelsey graduated, but then I realized we sent Jimmy and Zane to Peru for a week when we sent Kelsey nowhere, so I suppose it evens out.
I've read too.
Last summer I read the Harry Potter series and some other books I can't remember. In Part 1 of Summer 2014, I read and reread random books: Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce, and Voyage of the Dawn Treader (CS Lewis); Wounded by God's People (Anne Graham Lotz); Disconnected Kids (Robert Melillo); How to Write Short (Roy Peter Clark); and On Writing (Stephen King). I'm currently reading by the pool Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) and in the evenings Raney (Clyde Edgerton). Reading those two last fiction titles at the same time could conceivably make my head explode.
It feels like it's going slowly, but I actually annotated Clark and King and got LOTS of ideas about how to make both my writing and English classes better. "Less is more," I always say. Actually, I usually say "more is more," but I'm trying to write short{er}.
I guess that bring us to this, then: The End. Of Challenge 12. More to come. Later...
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