Choice Lit Topic: Big Fresh Archives
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The Big Fresh September 27, 2014 Walk and Talk
Walking is good for solving problems — it’s like the feet are little psychiatrists. Terri Guillemets I’ve been reading lately about the craze of counting steps, and it’s likely...
The Big Fresh September 20, 2014 Chinese Food
I just love Chinese food. My favorite dish is number 27. Clement Atlee Not long ago, I spent the morning with a colleague completing a long and arduous online...
The Big Fresh September 13, 2014 Extra or Unexpected?
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Boris Pasternak...
The Big Fresh September 6, 2014 Clark Walking
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. Stacia Tauscher My son is...
The Big Fresh August 30, 2014 The Other Space
Gardens are a form of autobiography. Sydney Eddison I could open a farmers’ market this year. My garden is overflowing with fresh vegetables and flowers. My family has even...
The Big Fresh August 23, 2014 Pure Enjoyment PD
There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a Powerpoint slide. Edward Tufte This is the season when literacy leaders are...
The Big Fresh August 16, 2014 Hot
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. Ralph Waldo Emerson Earlier this summer I was fortunate to participate in a writing institute. What could be better for...
The Big Fresh August 9, 2014 Home
I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else. E.B. White Last January I visited Keri Archer’s kindergarten classroom in the teeth of flu season....
The Big Fresh August 2, 2014 Night Magic
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. Robert Orben We are on vacation. We’re spending our days building sand castles, taking epic...
The Big Fresh July 26, 2014 Beautiful Questions
always the more beautiful answer, who asks a more beautiful question . . . e. e. cummings I picked the theme of “renewal” for a series of writing retreats this...
The Big Fresh July 19, 2014 Please Don’t Ruin Our Good Work
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. Marc Chagall The day after my thumb surgery, I returned to have the dressing changed and a splint made...
The Big Fresh July 12, 2014 Loving the Process
Soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go in the world, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about. ...
The Big Fresh July 5, 2014 Cucumber in a Tomato Cage
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them Liberty...
The Big Fresh June 21, 2014 Spider Web
The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Alexander Pope There is a giant spider web along my front walk. It is...
The Big Fresh June 14, 2014 Mind and Body
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who...
The Big Fresh June 7, 2014 Sorry
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been...
The Big Fresh May 31, 2014 Stories and Problems
The plumber, the roofer and the electrician sell us a cure. They come to our house, fix the problem, and leave. The consultant, the doctor (often) and the politician sell...
The Big Fresh May 24, 2014 Walled Readers
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. Martin Heidegger This spring I visited Gigi McAllister’s fourth-grade classroom in southern Maine....
The Big Fresh May 17, 2014 Who We Are
The return makes one love the farewell. Alfred De Musset In a few short days I am due to give birth to my second child! Early on in the...
The Big Fresh May 10, 2014 Benny
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher When I was 16 years old my passion was playing my clarinet in the high school band, and my...
The Big Fresh May 3, 2014 Piled Up
When you climb to the top of the obstacle that is blocking your view, you are able to look at your situation from a different perspective. Lucy MacDonald I...
