Road Writer Blogs

Tag: writing snippets

  • Life Adventures:  Personal or Political? (with pictures!)

    Mary and I have had a delightful season of campervanning this year, with me writing as we travel and her learning to play the violin (see pictures!).  We’ve made trips to see family in Pennsylvania and Utah, a 40th anniversary excursion to explore geology and attend the WorldCon in WA, and now we are on…

  • Evolution, Social Media, and the Fruit of the Spirit

    Fruit of the spirit includes behaviors like patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control.  That sure makes one think about social media and politics, right? Not. The survival-of-the-fittest search for attention and influence on social media, or in politics, is a microcosm of evolution.  Those who rise above a certain threshold win the day, winner take all. …

  • Three Cs to an A:  Tips on Writing Science (with real student examples)

    When I taught science classes regularly at Minnesota State University Moorhead, I often assigned writing exercises, particularly my “One-Page Science Paper” which engaged students in multiple writes, reviews, and rewrites.  My own experience with writing assignments in college had often involved producing twenty or more pages, as though making it longer encouraged better writing.  I…

  • Hills of Tennessee

    Despite our misadventures last year with the rear door of our van, we are on our way again this year to visit my son Fenner and his wife Janna in Florida over Christmas!  We are very excited, leaving home at temperature below zero and moving toward lows in the fifties and even sixties!  As we…

  • WIP Snippet

    One of the delightful discoveries of our retirement campervan travels has been that, with power from our onboard solar panels, we can actually do work while we travel, preparing lessons for courses we are still teaching, getting ready to offer science teacher workshops, and others.  We can also work on our special projects, Mary cross-stitching…