"Would it be of any use now," thought Alice, "to speak to this mouse?"

Welcome any newcomers to this blog. To bring you up-to-date, I am preparing a poster presentation for the upcoming Teaching Practices Colloquium at Thompson Rivers University, Feb. 21st, 2011. My subject is the integration of faith and religious belief into academic writing. I am working with a local printer to try and produce a poster that is visually appealing, as well as informative - and feeling pretty good about my progress. I've had  excellent support and encouragement with this work, primarily as a result of 'blogging'. So, two new avenues of communication have opened for me. The last time I made a poster, it detailed the features of a Lionfish for my then six year old daughter. It involved glitter and crayons. She is standing beside me now... telling me something about baby monkeys and earwax... not joking. In any case, hopefully this poster will be as well received; the Lionfish was gold-star worthy. As for this blog, I plan to continue to use it to talk about teaching writing, and would like to open the subject matter up a bit - to include personal writing projects (poems, stories, articles, books). It has come to my attention that a number of my colleagues are writers, and that I know little about this aspect of their work. Let's share more. What are you writing? Why? How can we get our writing 'out there'? Look forward to your questions, comments, thoughts, etc. Happy Valentine's Day.

On a side note...

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