For someone who loves words, and who taught journalism for almost 20 years, it is a crime that this is my first blog. I feel downright hypocritical that I am only now creating a blog. Why has it taken me so long?
~ Those 20 years I taught journalism absorbed my every waking minute. Heck, journalism absorbed my sleeping minutes as well, awakening me in the middle of the night with both founded and unfounded fears ("founded" is a word, right?)
~ I work for a district that, like many (if not most) school districts is paranoid. After being burned by journalism in this district, I was afraid to post anything online that may get me into even more trouble.
~ I have two sons, one with a learning difference that required quite a bit of my time helping him with homework (very willingly, I might add). Now that he is in college, and the other is an invisible 8th grader (living upstairs unless I force him to come down and join the family), I have time to write.
~ Finally, and maybe most importantly for me, I just couldn't see why anyone would care what I wrote.
But now I meet regularly with a good friend and her daughter (who was one of my stellar journalism students) to discuss their writing. They keep prodding me to make it OUR writing. So, here I go. Now I can tell them that I have writings to discuss as well!
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