by SMThornton | Dec 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
All right, it’s time for your latest installment of Student Analogies & Metaphors! The last installment featured maggots in hot grease and poor, slow Phil. Today we have the romance version to make you snort out loud!1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a...
by SMThornton | Dec 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Have you ever had to interview for a job and they ask you what your worst quality is? I was dumbfounded to be asked that at my first job interview. I’m here to sell myself and tell you just what a fabulous human being I am and make you believe that you’ll...
by SMThornton | Dec 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
This week may kill me. The week before finals is horrendous, the feeling a lobster has just before being dropped in the boiling pot of water. Seriously, what idiot assigns all these ridiculous projects and tests to my students? Right…So I’m quite thrilled...
by SMThornton | Dec 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
My daughter loves the Three Little Pigs, so much so that I’ve even been treated to a re-enactment of the story in Home Depot’s door department. Multiple times. Something I noticed when reading her Disney version of the story is that the ending is watered...
by SMThornton | Dec 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
A while back I posted about rules we writers love to break. I really, really love sentence fragments. A lot. But you know what? Writing is like baking brownies (I just pulled a fresh batch out of the oven and the house smells heavenly). You can make it from a mix,...
