I’m finally coming back to blogging after a long hiatus, mainly because my students are starting their blogs and it always gets me excited to keep blogging on my own. I was doing a pretty good job until around this time last year when my sister-in-law passed away and I had to go back to my childhood home to be supportive for my brother and mother. It kind of took the steam out of my writing and I could never get going again.
But now I’m ready to start again and see how much I can do going forward. I would like to continue with my 30-day challenges as a way to force myself to work on things that I really want to do but don’t because I always find some kind of excuse not to. I was doing pretty good with blogging everyday, and it was hard, but again I kind of lost steam when I had to go to Baltimore. So may be I can continue with that.
My real reason to blog, as it always has been, is to be a better writer and communicator. I feel like 10-15 years ago I was really pretty good at communicating my ideas and getting others to understand, but somewhere along the way I have lost some of those skills. A big part of it has been the problem of only communicating with middle school students on a regular basis. While they are awesomely creative and keep me on my toes, they don’t challenge my more adult intellect. So I need to find a way of interacting with more adults about a variety of subjects.
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