How would you feel if someone told you that you were his or her best friend?
Special Announcement: Essay class openings
We are opening up the Expository Essay class for a few more registrations. Due to demand, we are offering 8 more spaces to turn this into two classes. If you were one of the ones who wished you could take the essay class now, please feel free to sign up.
Register for the Expository Essay Class.
Friday Freewrite: If I could go anywhere…
Spin a globe if you have one and then close your eyes. Use your pointer finger and point it at the globe to stop it. Wherever your finger lands, write about traveling to that place. Of course, you may not know anything about it, but that’s okay. For this freewrite, use the place you point to as a fantasy prompt. Pretend about the place. You can make up everything (from inhabitants to languages to vegetation to special powers)! Or if you do happen to know about the place, you can use the information you already have.
This is a freewrite so be free!
Email: Teatimes all the time
This has to be my favorite email question ever:
Dear Julie and Bravewriter Staff,
Is is okay to do tea time and poetry every day? I was just wondering….
Julie Patrick
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Yes. 😀
Long Answer:
My kids and I did teatimes daily for a long time. Most of them included poetry. We’ve gone through periods where we do them once-a-month too. Really, focus on your own intuitive sense of what creates joy, peace and learning. If teatime and poetry centers your family and leads to a productive morning, why not do them daily!? Don’t overdo them, though. If the enthusiasm wanes, time to try something else.
Tea is the standard way we unwind in my house, so we’ve had math teatimes, history teatimes, celebratory teatimes and wind-down-from-stress teatimes too. ENJOY!
Friday Freewrite: If I did it differently
Think of a regret. What do you wish you had done differently? Write about that.
