by Deborah Quinn | Nov 13, 2013 | Books, Education, language, NaBloPoMo, reading, teaching, writing
I spent about six weeks this semester teaching and talking about poetry with my students. Almost to a person, they started the term with “eh…I don’t much like poetry,” and “I don’t get poetry,” and “what the hell is...
by Deborah Quinn | Sep 10, 2012 | Education, language, teaching, writing
I came back from summer vacation revving with ideas about writing projects. My mind bubbled with book proposals, blog posts, novel revisions, pitches for magazine articles. Words and ideas tumbled around in my head like socks in the spin cycle. I was on fire, people,...
by Deborah Quinn | Sep 16, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, Education, expat, language
Caleb came home from his third day at his new school and said “look, mommy, I can write my name in Arabic!” And he did: It occurs to me that he may have actually written “suck it,” and I will never know. But still…he did it in Arabic. Linguists talk about a “critical...
