Monday August 20, 2007 Accordion book continued

My daughter's name is Erin but we call her Tuts. It's a shortened version of TaTa. She got that name at the babysitters when she was younger because she was always such a tata. Whatever that means!

I think I'll add an updated picture of her taken at her wedding on June 8, 2007.

More Accordion book

I have two kids: Nathan who is almost 33 and Erin who just turned 29. This is my son's page.

Accordion Book continued 8/19/07

The title of this page is "I Come From." The ribbon covers part of it.

This is my family background. We didn't have much money but made up for it with love and respect and laughter.

The picture of my mom in the heart charm is blurry because the bead just above it let some light in.

Accordion Book continued 8/19/07

We spend the whole summer at a campground in Maine and love to make fires at night. This page shows the simplicity of our lives and how it takes very little to make us happy. The journaling reads:

You build a fire

no paper scraps and kindling, though

split logs

drenched in charcoal lighter fluid

a click of the Cricket

instantaneous inferno

flames paint our faces

Your hand reaches for mine

I reach for yours.

Accordion book continued

This is one dream I have. The poem reads:

I want a small house
near the ocean
with walls as white as foam

with curtains that dance
in the breeze
like sheets on a clothesline

I want to live there
surrounded by books
tending my flower garden

biking to the beach
and writing poedms
that blossom.

Sat. August 18, 2007

Thought I'd share an accordion book I created last year. This was an assignment I gave my poetry writing students and I did it along with them. It had to have a theme and mine was all the things that make me smile.

The number one rule of poetry is to show and not tell so instead of telling about myself, I'll show what I'm like through these pages.

This is the cover.

August 15, 2007

Babysat our granddaughter last week. So much fun to play with her. I so enjoy watching her discover language. She's 20 months old already!