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Slice of Life is  hosted  at the  Two Writing Teachers Join in and share a slice of your life.  _____________________________________________________ Change is ... How would you finish that thought? There are so many different ways to think about change. Change can be necessary. It can be healthy.  Change can be positive or it can be negative. Change can be lonely. It can be a personal choice or a decision that has been made for you. Change impacts our thoughts, our emotions, our present and our future. It's only been a little over a month. Five and a half weeks. Forty-two days to be exact. All that time in a new school in a new role. Learning quickly t

Slice of Life is  hosted  at the  Two Writing Teachers Join in and share a slice of your life.  _____________________________________________________ I started reading Ruth Ayres' free preview of her new book ... Enticing Hard-To-Reach Writers   as a teacher ... and then her words spoke to me as ... A writer. You see, Ruth and I go way back. (She maybe doesn't remember it.) 2011. My babies were not even a year old and one February day during nap time for my girls, I stumbled upon the TWT blog. Ruth enticed me then ... I started a blog. I started writing. I just started and didn't quite understand why because really, what new mom of twin b