Dd4 managed to write her name this week, after months of practice doing capital letters. After she’d finished the 6 letters of her name, she looked up and beamed. Our living room had never been brighter. This is the choice I make. To spread sun and fields over tiled roofs, crumple glass panes into dandelions, [...]
Archive > June 2009
Joy’s Composition
Joy (dd8) took part in the Creative Writing Course that I taught during the school hols. One of the writing assignments included responding to a prompt : “It was the brightest day in August. The sun was a golden orb that was about to set and the late evening breezes swept me along the forest [...]
Creative writing and revival
I spent most of last week scribbling down ideas and putting together lesson plans. I also overdosed on preserved guava and Nescafe (decaff), not to mention chocolate cream cakes and Bulla’s Neapolitan ice-cream. These were part of the preparation for what would happen the week after. I was a knight training for battle, or a [...]