by SMThornton | Mar 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
2. Reading is good. But not all books are good.Many of you know I recently rediscovered time for reading. When your two-year-old starts putting herself to bed and you get rid of the T.V. it’s amazing how much free time you suddenly have. I have an informal goal...
by SMThornton | Mar 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’m baaaaaack!I know you all missed me. I swear I thought of you when I went to check blogs and remembered the cruise ship charges $.55 a minute for internet. I spend about an hour a day on blogs, on a seven day cruise… You do the math. But now I’m...
by SMThornton | Mar 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Remember, remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted. -Sylvia Plath What will you do today to live, feel, and cling to life?
by SMThornton | Mar 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’m hoping everyone can use a little giggle today. For your reading pleasure, I present my very own Student Bloopers! 1. Last year, I was grading my students’ tests on Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. One of the questions asked them to identify ziggurats....
by SMThornton | Mar 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve been putting off writing a blog bio of Hatshepsut for a long time. Since I started blogging actually. Why? Because I wanted to wait until people would actually read the post! Imagine your hero, the one person in the world you’ve on a pedestal, one so...
by SMThornton | Mar 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
We writers wear a lot of hats. In fact, Elana Johnson just blogged about this. I’ve been wearing my editing hat since August when I finished the first draft of Hatshepsut. I did manage to put my writing hat on for a while while the MS was curing, but it’s...
