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Slice of Life  hosted  at the Two Writing Teachers Join in and share a slice of your life. Over a month ago, I received this personal invitational tweet: Yes, a little challenge.  I'm not one for a blogging challenge.  I apologize to anyone who has offered up a challenge in the past and I miserably failed by doing nothing. This was one little challenge that I wanted to do ... it just took the right time to complete it.  This little challenge was to share 100 that I am grateful for   and right now  felt like the right time to share my list.  Thank you, Terje, for your little challenge. Here it goes ... 100 things I am thankful for.   Right now .  In this moment.  In no particular order. My God My hubby My two be

Check out more Slices of Life  at the  Two Writing Teachers After starting this blog one cold and dreary day in February while my girls were napping, I have made it to 100 posts!  Yes, this right here, that you are now reading, that is freshly written, is absolutely, positively post number one hundred!  So, I thought I'd share some of my reflections about writing and blogging: I'm a writer!  I'm not trying for book deals here . . . yet. I'm just trying to share my thinking and grow as a reader, writer, and teacher of both. I enjoy writing poetry.  Not form or structured poems, just free verse.  I've written more poetry over the last couple months than I have ever written in my entire life.  I've fallen in love with poetry. I loved participating in the March challenge .  Ruth challenged me to start a blog and to just start writing.  I was motivated.  I was actively searching for ideas to capture.  Currently, my writer's notebook is whispering to me,