One of my friends was really surprised by this, so I figured I’d share it in case anyone else didn’t know this. Slugs don’t have a mating season or anything–they just reproduce and die all year long. So when it gets too cold out, they just sort of shrink up and chill out while they wait for it to get warm enough again to venture out and eat the hell out of your garden.
So when I found a slug in our bag of lettuce, I brought him outside and set him down, and sure enough, he poked his little eyes out and began cruising along at reckless grandma speeds, excited to find new leaves that he hadn’t been refrigerated on top of for over a week.
Sorry I missed last Tuesday, and sorry I’m cheating this time, but I’m too busy to dig up anything more than cute photos from my hard drive. Here’s a photo of Hanzo cuddling with Plunkett while Briar uses her SuperHerding™ instincts to keep the little guy from wandering off the couch. <3
Snippets provides kids with a chance to see what it’s like being a real writer. Some are given revision requests, and many are published. There’s even a reading & signing at Village Books.
When I was a kid, I didn’t have access to any special writing clubs that would promote craft, and there was only one magazine my teachers knew of that children could be published in. I really wish I could have had more opportunities to learn about taking writing seriously as well as for fun, and Whatcom Young Writers does that. If you remember what I remember, if you also wish that opportunity had been present for you, take a moment and a couple bucks to make this possible for the kids I work with.
I’m a facilitator at an after-school writing club for teens (and pre-teens if they know the secret password). I forgot my composition book last week, so I didn’t have anything to write in… except the three sketchbooks in my bag. So I pulled out my new Comics! book, which is comics only, and used our daily writing prompt (which is the contents of the first word balloon) to make a comic.
TL;DW: She was upstairs and didn’t realize the house was on fire; if Cain hadn’t alerted her, she would have been trapped in a fire that took 70 firefighters to put out. When she got outside, she realized Cain wasn’t with her. So she put her robe over her face and went back in for him. <3
If the video doesn’t load or you want to read the article, go here. Thanks to Patrick for sending me the link!
