SPLINTERS FOR MARCH 2021

  1. Is there a bit of Irish in your family tree, or does the word “Irish” just spark images in your mind?
    1. Share your heritage with a family story.
    2. Are you a fan of fairies and “wee folk”, why? Spin a fanciful tale where they might appear.
  2. Is there a woman that you admire, living or not, famous or not?
    1. Write an elegy for her.
    2. Do you wish you were a woman to admire? Write a letter to your current self from that future woman.
  3. School reunions, fun or sad?
    1. What would you hope to see, experience at your next (or first) reunion?
    2. What would you write about in your journal after the reunion is over?
    3. Inspired by Kathleen Roxby’s poem to write your own portrait of a classmate? Give it a try.
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SPLINTERS FOR MARCH 2021

  1. Is there a bit of Irish in your family tree, or does the word “Irish” just spark images in your mind?
    1. Share your heritage with a family story.
    2. Are you a fan of fairies and “wee folk”, why? Spin a fanciful tale where they might appear.
  2. Is there a woman that you admire, living or not, famous or not?
    1. Write an elegy for her.
    2. Do you wish you were a woman to admire? Write a letter to your current self from that future woman.
  3. School reunions, fun or sad?
    1. What would you hope to see, experience at your next (or first) reunion?
    2. What would you write about in your journal after the reunion is over?
    3. Write your a portrait of a classmate.
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SPLINTERS FOR FEBRUARY 2021

  1. Nearly everyone knows some love story.
    1. Share the one you cannot forget which ended.
    2. Do you still have a keepsake from a childhood sweetheart? Why did you keep it, and what is it?
    3. Or, have you, like Kathleen Roxby’s poem, a keepsake you have not forgotten, but which was lost or thrown away?
    4. Write a poem using the first letter of each line to spell out LOVE STORY.
  2. Feeling patriotic, or not, about Presidents’ Day? Persuade us to see your point of view.
  3. Write lovingly about an unusual object, something unlikely to be thought of as a thing of beauty.
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SPLINTERS FOR FEBRUARY 2021

  1. Nearly everyone knows some love story.
    1. Share the one you cannot forget which ended.
    2. Do you still have a keepsake from a childhood sweetheart? Why did you keep it, and what is it?
    3. Or, have you, like Kathleen Roxby’s poem, a keepsake you have not forgotten, but which was lost or thrown away?
    4. Write a poem using the first letter of each line to spell out LOVE STORY.
  2. Feeling patriotic, or not, about Presidents’ Day? Persuade us to see your point of view.
  3. Write lovingly about an unusual object, something unlikely to be thought of as a thing of beauty.
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SPLINTERS FOR FEBRUARY 2021

  1. Nearly everyone knows some love story.
    1. Share the one you cannot forget which ended.
    2. Do you still have a keepsake from a childhood sweetheart? Why did you keep it, and what is it?
    3. Or, have you, like Kathleen Roxby’s poem, a keepsake you have not forgotten, but which was lost or thrown away?
    4. Write a poem using the first letter of each line to spell out LOVE STORY.
  2. Feeling patriotic, or not, about Presidents’ Day? Persuade us to see your point of view.
  3. Write lovingly about an unusual object, something unlikely to be thought of as a thing of beauty.
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SPLINTERS FOR FEBRUARY 2021

  1. Nearly everyone knows some love story.
    1. Share the one you cannot forget which ended.
    2. Do you still have a keepsake from a childhood sweetheart? Why did you keep it, and what is it?
    3. Or, have you, like Kathleen Roxby’s poem, a keepsake you have not forgotten, but which was lost or thrown away?
    4. Write a poem using the first letter of each line to spell out LOVE STORY.
  2. Feeling patriotic, or not, about Presidents’ Day? Persuade us to see your point of view.
  3. Write lovingly about an unusual object, something unlikely to be thought of as a thing of beauty.
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Splinters for January 2021

  1. January is the “make resolutions” or “get organized” month.
    1. What will be/have been your resolutions, will/did you succeed or fail?
    2. What needs to be organized in your life? Perhaps write an article of how to or how not to organize. Why do you hate or love to organize?
  2. Write a something suggested by the holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
    1. A memory or a hope for the future.
    2. Whatever subject you choose, try writing it in different forms: poem, fictional story, blog.
  3. Tell the world or your journal about your winter, whether symbolic or nature’s version.
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Splinters for January 2021

  1. January is the “make resolutions” or “get organized” month.
    1. What will be/have been your resolutions, will/did you succeed or fail?
    2. What needs to be organized in your life? Perhaps write an article of how to or how not to organize. Why do you hate or love to organize?
  2. Write a something suggested by the holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
    1. A memory or a hope for the future.
    2. Whatever subject you choose, try writing it in different forms: poem, fictional story, blog.
  3. Tell the world or your journal about your winter, whether symbolic or nature’s version.
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Splinters for January 2021

  1. January is the “make resolutions” or “get organized” month.
    1. What will be/have been your resolutions, will/did you succeed or fail?
    2. What needs to be organized in your life? Perhaps write an article of how to or how not to organize. Why do you hate or love to organize?
  2. Write a something suggested by the holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
    1. A memory or a hope for the future.
    2. Whatever subject you choose, try writing it in different forms: poem, fictional story, blog.
  3. Tell the world or your journal about your winter, whether symbolic or nature’s version.
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Splinters for January 2021

  1. January is the “make resolutions” or “get organized” month.
    1. What will be/have been your resolutions, will/did you succeed or fail?
    2. What needs to be organized in your life? Perhaps write an article of how to or how not to organize. Why do you hate or love to organize?
  2. Write a something suggested by the holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
    1. A memory or a hope for the future.
    2. Whatever subject you choose, try writing it in different forms: poem, fictional story, blog.
  3. Tell the world or your journal about your winter, whether symbolic or nature’s version.
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