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There is a Season

March 17, 2011
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This accidentally published a few weeks ago. Sorry if it is a repeat for some of you who have my blog on a reader.  I wrote and finalized a poem for this post that is at the bottom. A few weeks ago, I was finishing Fahrenheit 451 with my honors class and we were discussing [...]

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Match? dot com

March 9, 2011
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Like an online dating site You log-on when convenient and expect me to respond. You play with my heart, clicking, chatting, and uploading more of yourself into my profile. Or maybe I’m absorbing you like a virus affecting and infecting my internal hard drive. Until you finally break the password into my heart. Then move [...]

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Movie Review: Beastly

March 7, 2011
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Good Monday Morning all! This last weekend I went to see Beastly with a few friends for my birthday. Doesn’t that movie poster just look awesome! For my review, I am going to give it 3 1/2 stars. It is a modern day retelling of Beauty and the Beast – teenage style.  The self-obsessed, attractive, [...]

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First Summer: Chapter 3

August 2, 2010
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 ——– Chapter 3 The road to Mill Hollow is an old dirt road off the main highway.  The road winds through the canyon and up into the mountains.  After 50 years of busses going up and down the road, some sections have deep ruts.  The ruts are so deep that the [...]

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First Summer: Chapter 2

July 27, 2010
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So, I started writing that novel – you know, that one I’ve been meaning to write since I was 18.  I actually have started it several times and have worked on it sporatically.  Well, I decided that if I was going to actually keep working on it, then I would have to do something about [...]

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5:30 AM, Haiku, Photos, and a Sunrise

June 28, 2010
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Last night I didn’t sleep.  No really.  I never fell asleep.  Finally around 4:30 I got up and started writing.  As I was writing, I noticed the sun coming up and my room getting lighter and lighter.  I thought I would go and watch the sun rise, while I wrote outside.  I wrote a whole [...]

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My Grandfather

June 11, 2010
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This summer, I have great plans to write.  I want to really start working on a book of poetry that I have in mind that I’m thinking I will self-publish.  Anyways . . . . I wrote a poem for my Grandpa Morris.  He died of cancer when I was 20 years old.  This is [...]

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Chocolate

March 29, 2010

So, I’m counting my calories and watching what I’m eating, so naturally, I’m craving chocolate.  Lots and lots of chocolate.  I wrote this poem about chocolate in church yesterday (you’ll notice the religious references.) ____ Chocolate Pure joy fills my nose Scenting sweet with a touch of better Whether dark, white, or milk, Melted or [...]

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Haiku’s

March 15, 2010

My students are working on haiku’s.  So, I had them tell me a subject to write on and I wrote a haiku for them.  Here they are in all their glory and silliness. Sickness Each day I hack and Cough and snuffle the mucus In my nose and throat Cowboys Chaps and hats, tight jeans [...]

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Grandfather Nye

March 11, 2010

I was teaching my students a creative writing exercise where you try to visualize a person – what they look like, smell like, what they are wearing, and any memories.  I wrote about my mother’s father.  He is 96 years old. Grandfather Nye You are the silent statue Who stares out the front window Into [...]

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The Young Victoria

March 5, 2010

I recently just saw The Young Victoria.  I wanted to see it a long time ago, but didn’t.  I’m glad that I went to see it in the movie theater because it is stunning, visually stunning!  And it is a beautiful love story. The movie is about Queen Victoria as a young woman.  Half of [...]

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Letters To Prison

February 26, 2010

Do you remember this post a while back letters from students.  If not, read it, because it will help you to understand this poem I wrote.  I also wrote this poem with my students, when I was teaching them how to do a 5 minute free write and then turn it into a poem.  (Once [...]

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To My Hair

February 2, 2010

My hair and I have had a long and tempestuous relationship.  I recently cut my hair and I remembered a poem that I wrote to my hair while I was in college. To My Hair I work with you every day. No results. Clinging to my head. I’ve tried to curl you, Dye you, Rat [...]

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How Twilight Should Have Ended

January 27, 2010

If you know me at all, then you know that I am a fan of the Twilight series.  A co-worker showed this video to me and I went to the website. The website includes comic-style endings to popular movies. Of coarse they did one for Twilight.  It is hi-lar-ious!  Check it out. My favorite line [...]

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Mount Timpanogos

January 11, 2010

Mount Timpanogos is the second largest mountain the Wasatach Mountain Range.  Every day in college I looked up at it.  Every day for the last four years I have driven by it.  I have hiked it 2 times and hiked to the Mount Timpanogos Caves 2 times in my life.  Needless to say, it is [...]

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Movie Reviews from Christmas Break

January 8, 2010

Over the Christmas break I saw three different movies.  I do love the movies.  I actually even got to see one with my parents, which never happens because they don’t like going to movie theaters.  It was really nice. One movie I saw, which was also my favorite, was Avatar.  I had heard that it [...]

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Comic: Sarcasm

November 24, 2009

Here is another comic for you. I need to work on my BLOCK / COMIC handwriting and my spacial awareness.  But this is fun!

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Comic: Work Means Working Now

November 23, 2009

I read a blog called Inkygirl.com The writer draws a lot of comics having to do with writing.  I really like it.  So, I thought I would try my hand at a comic.  Her comics are simple and in black and white, most of the time.  So I drew a little comic about a conversation [...]

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I got to see New Moon a little early!

November 19, 2009

So, I was incredibly lucky and got to go and watch New Moon last night as part of a test showing.  A friend of mine works at a movie theater – oh yeah, I got connections. Anyways . . . here is what I thought. I liked it and it was well done, but I [...]

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