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Tuesday Teatime: Caddy family

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Hi Julie,

We’re new to Brave Writer this year—I attended the workshop you held in Grand Rapids last March (I’m the one who asked you if you happened to be a LLL Leader, since I recognized many familiar LLL ideas in your writing and speaking), and we’re slowly incorporating Brave Writer ideas into our life. We started having poetry teas last spring—finally a way to enjoy poetry together!

A friend of mine recently told me her 8 year old daughter was really interested in learning about poetry, but she didn’t know how to teach her. I sent her some information about Brave Writer and directed her to the website to read more, then we had a big poetry tea on Sept 5 with all six children. Each of the children read or recited a couple of poems and we all enjoyed tea together. Her daughter memorized several poems and also taught her 4 year old brother some poems he could recite on his own, and one that they did together. My 7 year old son drew a picture of a shark to illustrate his poem. Everyone learned how varied poems can be and we all had a wonderful time together. We have decided to make this a monthly event—all the kids look forward to it. Our next Poetry Tea is scheduled for this Friday, Oct. 3.

Thanks, Julie, for helping out our family.

Ann

P.S. I was a La Leche League leader for ten years. Some of my first published writing was for La Leche League as a matter of fact!

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New posts coming tomorrow

This has been a doozy of a September for me. New site is almost finished!!! And it’s pretty. I’ve got lots of writing to do for it but tackling it a bit at a time.

In any case, look for a new blog entry some time tomorrow.

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Friday Freewrite: A chance to just get mad…

What is something that really bugs you?

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My power is back and

my daughter is moved into her apartment for college. Phew. What a whirlwind over the last three days! You should have seen me—I assembled a futon bed frame, an IKEA bookcase, and a desk chair; and I hung a mirror on the wall which required about ten mistaken holes until I bit the bullet and went to Target for dry wall screws and a level. Voila… moments later a straight, secure mirror appeared on the wall (to cover the ten holes). 🙂 I also discovered that it’s incredibly empowering to use a drill. The pow-ah!

I’ll be getting to all those questions you emailed and want to remind you that if you don’t hear from me within 48 hours, always resend your question. I get a lot of email and occasionally one will fall through the cracks.

Hope your fall is cooling off. Ours is! And it’s amazing just how much I love lightbulbs.

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No power!

For the first time, Cincinnati is experiencing one of the worst outages in its history. 674,000 homes and businesses without power due to the ravages of winds left over from Hurricane Ike. Trees are down everywhere, hard to find gas stations with pumps that work, no street lights.

I am sitting in the one lone Panera bread with wi-fi (along with the rest of Butler County) typing this message to you. If you have sent me an email, I will look for it and respond if it is urgent. Otherwise, it may be up to a week before we have Internet at home again. Call me, if you are in special need of help or contact [email protected] and ask for Lisa. She will help you with any username, forum access questions you may have.

Hopefully this will all resolve soon.

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