Greig Roselli — Teacher, Writer, Philosophy Sprinkles Maker

As the school year gets into full swing—or if you're like me, gearing up to start teaching right after Labor Day—the need for effective ...

 "All is well that ends well" — John Heywood, 1497-1580 PDF Copy for Printing

     What was supposed to be a walk to increase my daily steps turned into a journey. People pop out. Restaurants offer outside seating. The...

In this book, Journal of a Novel,  Steinbeck talks about how he overcame writer's  block to write his epic novel East of Eden. ...

In the movie Dead Poets Society , Robin Williams plays the role of private school teacher Mr. Keating  — a man who believes words can be bu...

image source: videotron Not having a job changes you. You have to think differently when you're finding ways to carve out a life t...

Does using a typewriter help writers to write? A steely resolve to write more came in the form of a Brother SX-4000 typewriter I bought ...

Joyce Carol Oates (image source: Jewish Week ) Lois Oppenheim Interviews Joyce Carol Oates As far as inimitable serious novelists go, J...

Do you have failed first sentences of novels you tried to write? Here's one: Her skin was chalky white, but Patrick thought she was ro...

Why go to Poets house? Poets House boasts 50,000 volumes of poetry in an open, eco-friendly environment that affords a view of the Huds...

By Jacques Prevert Tercerunquinto. I Am What I Am I am what I am I am made like that When I have a desire to laugh Yes, I laugh wi...

I'm a writer and a thinker. And I'm sure if you read my blog, you probably enjoy writerly kind of things. So you get me when I say ...

Copy of a high school teacher's letter to his students about their final freshman year writing project with an addendum of quotes: ...

makezine You may be a precious snowflake, but if you can't express your individuality in sterling prose, I don't want to...

The difference between mad people and sane people [...] is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one stor...

For all you Vir ginia Woolf fans out there, here is a nice picture of her in youth. And then there is a photograph of  Thérèse  of Lisieu...