renée a. schuls-jacobson
On Valentine’s Day & Half-Birthdays
It’s Valentine’s Day, and the person below is officially 12 & 1/2. This poem was written in celebration of him. the boy…
The 8-Year Old Chimney Sweep: A #LessonLearned by Franky Jebb
This personal narrative was written by Franky Jebb, one of my students from Monroe Community College who was enrolled in my Comp-101…
Continuing Their Excellent Adventure: The Things Come To Rochester, New York
Thing 1 and Two arrived in Rochester to continue their world-wide tour. But they wondered: Where is the snow?…
Haters Gonna Hate: Twenty Months Later
The other day I got this piece of fan mail: It was written in response to a post that I wrote almost…
Opting In: A Guest Post by Wayne Borean
Mr. Field was one of Wayne Borean’s Grade 13 math teachers. Read about his teacher memory today….
Saturday Night at the Club
Working on my fiction! This week’s prompt spoke to me so I decided to give it a whirl. We were asked to…
The Curse of the Migraine
I started getting migraines headaches when I was about 14 years old….
Quick! Tell Me What To Do!
I’m working furiously on my fiction manuscript. I need an unusual name for a babysitter. Got any suggestions? Give me a name,…
January 2012 Departmental Mash-Up of Awesomeness
Still no snow in Rochester, New York; nevertheless, it’s still pretty cool. Wanna know what else is cool? The bloggers listed in…