Journal Ho

I am a bad writer.I don’t mean bad writer in the sense of my writing is bad (at least, I hope that’s not the case), but that I am bad. I do bad things. I do not have an appropriately writerly persona.Take journaling, for instance. I have lots of journals. Lovely journals. Journals with just the right kind of paper, the creamy velvety kind that calls to you in a sultry voice,...
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New Pencil Smell

Here we are–the end of the first week back at school for teachers. The kids come in Monday. I’ve been working and scrubbing all week, thanks to a last-minute classroom move. I still have plenty to do today, what with meetings and copies and lesson plans and all, but the excitement is in the air!I’ve always been an office supply girl. I get far more excited over a luxurious fountain pen, a...
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Identity Crisis

*sigh*If you’re a semi-regular reader of the dish, you can probably tell that mimi has been going through a funk. An existential crisis. A “who am I, and remind me why I’m writing this blog?” moment. Or moments. Or months, if you want to be candid about it.All mimi can claim is an insane work schedule and, indeed, a bit of an identity crisis. For the blog, that is. mimi...
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Fresh Apples

mimi has been a hardworking girl for lo, these many years, and since this is the last year of National Board bonus money, it was time to upgrade. The nice people at the Apple store have sent me (courtesy of my credit card, of course) this lovely wee MacBook.So shiny! So pretty! So fast! mimi is v. excited about possibilities and has already downloaded a fresh new copy of Scrivener so she can...
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The Word Series

Props to Novel-T, which has created a lineup of American literature-inspired T-shirts. The baseball-themed shirts feature iconic characters and writers, like Hester Prynne, Moby-Dick and Captain Ahab, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and writers Whitman, Poe, and Thoreau. Each “jersey” features an icon befitting the player, like a whale (duh), a Captain’s “C,”...
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