Let’s begin with a definition of Haiku:
“A Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
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The Art Assignment: Become Someone Else
Our assignment from The Art Assignment: BECOME SOMEONE ELSEby TAMEKA NORRIS INSTRUCTIONS: 1) Take a selfie2) Change one thing about you3) Go out into the world4) Take another selfie5) Put them together… 6) Share This creating break brought to us by: The Art Assignment “an educational video series that introduces you to innovative artists, presents…
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Discover: Six-Word Memoir
“Perpetually surrounded by partially finished books.” My life in six words. That’s me. A researcher by nature, I find solace in the idea of that word of research: to re-search.
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Commonplace Books, Compost, and Art of Story Crafting: an Afternoon at Benzonia Public Library
An 86 degree day in Northern Michigan, china markers, Virginia Woolf, and a cow named Mr. Tomkin. A list of words with seemingly nothing in common, that is, until you add children and compost and a plan to write a story. Reader, are you curious? Good. Now relax and enjoy a story all about what can happen…
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Discover: Chimpanzees, Humans, Animal Culture
Us humans have led ourselves to believe that our culture sets us apart from the animal kingdom. But as Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes, writes in his The Atlantic article Chimpanzees Are Going Through a Tragic Loss, “many scientists have come to accept the existence of animal cultures”.
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The Courage to Write About Courage
Story sharing takes courage, courage to remember, to speak, to listen. In writing, our stories can thrive and maybe even touch the lives of others. But writing itself takes an immense amount of courage. As author Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “I strongly believe that writing is an act of courage. It’s almost an act of physical…
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