My Two Writing Teachers colleagues and I are hosting the 15th Annual March Slice of Life Story Challenge, in which teachers from around the world participate by posting a story per day.
Do you see the way that tree bends? Does it inspire?
Leaning out to catch the sun's rays... a lesson to be applied...
~ Eddie Vedder & Mike McCready
I grew up in Monkton, Vermont, a rural town full of dairy farms and logging roads. I spent time every day in the woods. We had many animals, a small farm, some might say: always a few cows, a horse, a pony, lots of rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, a dog named Bob, a long series of indoor and outdoor cats, parakeets, and a donkey named Pegasus. I played clarinet and saxophone and went away to band camp every year. I loved skiing and my parents found hand-me-down equipment and signed my brother and I up for the discounted school ski programs every year. I loved clothes and art and spent hours drawing and writing, filling up notebooks with song lyrics and poems. I made zines in high school. My first job was picking apples and filling jars of honey at an apple orchard and I loved it. To this day I am both a city person and a mountain person, equally comfortable taking in museums and art and restaurants, or backpacking for three weeks on the Long Trail. I wouldn’t want to live in a place that doesn’t have winter, and I’m honestly quite fearful of the ocean—not because of the water—because of the creatures.
This post was inspired by Elisabeth Ellington’s Rambling Autobiography, which was inspired by Angela Fulhauber’s Rambling Autobiography… which was inspired by Linda Reif’s Quickwrites!