Author: Eric Morris
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Missing Class and Missing Out on Stories
July always has me thinking ahead to the upcoming school year, but I usually think back a year to what some of my concerns for the previous year were. Year after year I have found myself surprised at how many of my expectations either end up unimportant or how some of my fears become greatly…
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A Week of Writing with the Kentucky Writing Project
I am by no means a morning person, but I will occasionally wake up at a decent time when it is for something important. This past week I found myself lucky enough to receive the opportunity to write with some other great teachers at the Kentucky Writing Project Summer Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, and although…
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Traveling: 51>52
I have always adhered to the old image of a few bags defining my existence whenever someone asks what I will be doing in the coming weeks. Traveling. I always imagine it as a gentle passing from one place to the next as I work on some great project that has demanded my attention for…
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Beware the Ends of May
May always hits me hard every year. For someone who willingly aligned his life with a school calendar and willingly inflicts this torture upon himself year after year, one would think that I would be accustomed to dealing with the pains of this time of the year. The earth itself feels like it will overheat,…
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What Does a Writerly Life Look Like?
Like many dreamers my age who love to write, I carry that fantasy within me that I can write in many of those idyllic places people romanticize about in every form of media. I would walk down to the local coffee shop, order a drink and something to eat, sit down, and then work for…
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Summertime Studies
Tomorrow we return for the first of a few days of our beginning-of-the-year teacher inservice days, so it is only natural for us teachers to return under a heavy miasma of contemplation. Education has formed the backbone of almost all of my life, and summer has always been my over-engorged stomach towards which I look…
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Welcome to the Death or the Desk Blog!
As anyone who has ever had to write a paper for a class or anything important for any situation in life can tell you, writers are brilliant procrastinators who have discovered any number of ways to keep from working on this or that project. One of my favorite—and perhaps ironic—methods for doing so is the…