3/23/22

Forget what stresses you. Embrace and encourage what emboldens and elevates you. Something I’m thinking about tonight. For me, and ALL of you. Enjoy your night. Love, #professormikey

ENGLISH 1A PROMPT

Everything around you has value, everything around you instructs.  Yes, you have to choose to see it that way, but it’s for years been something I’ve believed. Where are you right now, what are you doing?  What is your Now teaching you?  It’s easy to dismiss this idea, but that’s a choice. Try looking further…

ENGLISH 1A PROMPT

Whatever you feel on a Monday morning is imagined, positive or antithetical..what you do and how you react, what you create is what’s meaningful and story-relevant.

ENGLISH 1A ……

Happiness and being happy isn’t a product of or extension from perfection, I realize.  Not even sure balance has much to do with it.  More so, I see it as the dimension of self-peace… knowing your Beat, enjoying the character you are, and the story. Thoughts? (8/20/21)

English 5 – Monday 3/15/21

March’s Ides…. 5:5:10pm:  First ten words that come to mind….  Just write them down, let us respond.  Could take any form. ME: Not rushing. Don’t want that. Ease is what me frees. 5:10-5:40pm:  Self-talk in writing.  Why.  What does it do.  Is that what our authors are doing?  Why do it at all?   A…

English 5 – 3/8/21, Monday

5-5:10pm:  Hello!!  Tell us about your journal and journal writing lately.  Any stories?  Anything you could turn into a longer work?  Say 4-5 pages, ABOUT YOU? 5:10-5:40pm:  Samantha Irby’s essay flavor…..  tell us about it. 5:40-6pm:  What writing does for a reader, for the one writing.  But more than that… LIFE.  What we want from…

note

In our moods, we navigate differently.  The manner of our navigation chances.  But it doesn’t just change.  There’s an ability that we often don’t recognize, or choose to use.  Collect, then compose.  Write to yourself more.. letters, notes, stories, don’t worry about length. Worry about sincerity and vigor. Your journal should catch everything, everything.  Note…

1A – 7PM

(Tonight’s meeting will be from 7-8:15pm. We will address the below prompts at our own pace. Have fun! Don’t think too much!) 1 -Intro….  How are you?  What are you thinking as the year comes to its close?  What do you see for yourself for 2021?  Any stories of happiness or humor….? 2 -Freewriting…. Okay,…

1A – 5PM

(Tonight’s meeting will be from 5-6:15pm. We will address the below prompts at our own pace. Have fun! Don’t think too much!) 1 -Intro….  How are you?  What are you thinking as the year comes to its close?  What do you see for yourself for 2021?  Any stories of happiness or humor….? 2 -Freewriting…. Okay,…

ENGLISH 1A – 7PM SECTION

9/1/20 7-710:  Check-in… how’s your day, week?  Narrate your day….. 710-730:  Before we get into Sedaris, talk to us about your reading methods…. 730-750:  Sedaris, the four essays we read.  Observations?  How did the reading feel?  What insight do you have on this author? 750-810:  What parts/quotes did you like most?  Why? 810-830:  Does he…