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Writing

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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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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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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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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