Why Redux

My academic training and previous career was editorial journalism. I loved the directness of the writing style, the clean format of the 5W’s and an H. Yesterday I addressed two of the W’s of my blog – the “where” and the “when.” But that darn “why” is begging for more attention.

There remain a lot of possibilities for why I started to blog. Maybe I needed to do this so that I could have a place to post some pictures of me that are better than those hideous School District pictures that the search engines always find. Or maybe it has something to do with practicing what I preach. The front of my classroom sports a huge banner (homemade by me) that says “Tell me a story….” My students hear many times over that they all have stories, unique and important stories that only they can tell. Maybe this can be my story place.

Maybe it’s just a place to hear myself think, to untangle my thoughts through my fingertips. Self-serving as that may be.

I am so grateful when other writers find the words my heart was looking for. Perhaps that is my hope – to be able to manipulate words in a way that will feed a hungry soul.

And maybe … just maybe, it will be a place to remind myself that out of every kind of stillness – deep and dark, or bright and joyful - can come dancing.

I hope you’ll dance with me.