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| It's like sitting on a bench with a friend, listening and responding. |
from Dr. Seuss
“We’ve GOT to make noises
in greater amounts!
So, open your mouth, lad!
For every voice counts!”
It’s a time for celebration! Yesterday was my 200th blog post at TeacherDance. My first post was March 1st, 2011 when I wrote about starting a workshop on personal essays, an intensive with another teacher with whom I was teaching. I was starting the March Slice of Life writing challenge with Stacey and Ruth at Two Writing Teachers, jumping into a pond I didn’t realize was big until I was with them for a while. I talked two other colleagues into doing it with me, but only one stayed, and continues to write. It’s always a pleasure to see her writing at Prose Cents, and we support each other in our writing at school as well.
On that first day I received five comments, and I was hooked. What a special experience to start a new thing and then have strangers actually respond to my writing, my ideas! Wow! During that day (I’ve peeked back) I heard from Tam at Clay Fragments, Tara at A Teaching Life, someone whose blog is no longer among the slicers, Ruth at Two Writing Teachers welcoming me to the challenge, and Mary Helen at BookSavors. Imagine this: except for one, everyone is still here!