Dear Friends: (organizers, teachers, and creators): What a day! Thank you so much for including me in this day of learning, networking, inspiration, and FUN. Thank you for inviting me into a community of like-minded thinkers. Of people who care deeply about literacy, and also kids, the world, the environment, our hearts. Thank you for…
failure
From the newsletter: Tennis and Writing
“You gotta be willing to fail… if you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.” Steve Jobs “There is no such thing as failure — failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.” –Oprah Winfrey Dear Writers, Did you enjoy the US Open? I r did (although I was really sad that Serena and…
Thinking out loud….
The path to publication is never a straight line….never that so beautiful Freitag plot line. It is a journey filled with peaks and valleys….successes and failure. Today was one of those “moving forward by taking it back” writing days. In other words: I deleted. A LOT. I made space. I got rid of what…