Saturday, October 13, 2012. It is October 13 and we had our first snow. We went on a snow hike and found a bunch of mushroom rings in one area. We played pappa bear chasing baby bear a game the little guy made up on the trail. And we loved it! This is My Life. Wednesday, September 19, 2012. Monday, August 20, 2012. Our school and district just made Scholastics Top 25 Cool Schools.

I teach professional writing at Northern Arizona University. This blog represents my academic background and personal interests in composing -how we use writing in socio-cultural spaces to make meaning and to actively participate in the world. It also documents my interests in cultivating a sense of place through photography and poetry.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. Saturday, February 12, 2011. Matt and I recently watched Objectified. Whose work really does look at that relationship to the things we own, provides a counterpoint. My briefcase and a small Poe. The documentary showed a design team trying to come up with a better toothbrush and that lead me to my new toothbrush.

Thursday, August 7, 2014. Tell it, John Gardner. Yes, I went there. Monday, July 7, 2014. Wednesday, June 18, 2014.

Living a creative life, and exploring alternative paths for artists. Johan Scherft, his amazing paper birds. You might remember that I had a spell of making felt birds. They were so labour intensive that I only did two of them. Firecrest paper bird model, all models designed and painted by J Scherft, and assembled by me. Cardinal under construction, this one is from the box available from Amazon. Here is the big guy done. Cardinals mean Pittsburgh and my.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. Several readers of my post about the memoir. As a citizen scientist,.