14 October 2025 TwoWritingTeachers.org| mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org
It’s Write Out time; October 12-26 this year. Let’s all get outside and write often! It seems to be more important than ever this year–nature and writing, especially in community, can be so powerful. Six of us, ages 4-70, started out on this 2.5 hours wandering and wondering adventure. After the first hour, I had […]| Dare to Care
It’s been a while since I’ve been here; Hello, Poetry Friday friends! Linda Baie is hosting the round-up today at Teacher Dance with some Dickens magic. I woke up this Friday morning, missing this community and thankful once again for the friends I swapped poems with this summer: Tabatha Yeatts, Buffy Silverman, Michelle Kogan, Tanita […]| Dare to Care
7 October 2025 TwoWritingTeachers.orgSunday morning my sister and I got up early and drove to Eloy Detention Center. We got to the detention center at 12:30 before our 1:00 p.m. appointment. It took the whole 30 minutes to go through the check-in process. We needed our driver’s license and car license plate number, written on my hand. That’s all we could bring in according to the signs. We had a car key that we also brought in because we didn’t know where else to put it. They kept it f...| Dare to Care
Today is the Slice of Life. Thank you, Two Writing Teachers, for providing this place to share slices of our lives. | Dare to Care
Today is Poetry Friday, and Karen Edmisten is hosting. Thank you! Thank you, Poetry Sisters, for the invitation to join you in passing notes to a poem. I chose to use first lines in Nikki Giovanni’s “Talk to Me, Poem, I Think I Got the Blues” to start my stanzas. Then I wrote a note […]| Dare to Care
On Monday eight women activists drove 1.5 hours to the office of our U.S. Representative. We met with two of his staff members to try to seek the release of our friend and asylum seeker, Rocio. You can read her story here, and you can still sign and share the petition at the same link. […]| Dare to Care
19 August 2025 TwoWritingTeachers.orgOn Friday, we got up early and took a summer bike ride around our desert. (After several weeks of excessively hot low temperatures, we had not been out for a while.) The Friday morning ride reminded me of the delights we have had since we bought our electronic mountain bikes over three years ago. We’ve had quite a few bumps and bruises and one cut lip, but more joys than we can count.| Dare to Care
Today is Poetry Friday. Margaret Simon, at Reflections on the Teche, is rounding up the posts this weekend. Tonight the Stafford Challenge had a guest speaker–Philip Metres shared poems and some of his poetic values. I heard of Philip last year when he and Jessica Jacobs used the same artwork on the covers of their […]| Dare to Care
Last Monday evening I was in a Zoom meeting with these poetry writing friends and bloggers: Glenda Funk, Kim Johnson, and Barb Edler. We talked about Slice of Life, and I made a commitment to write about our meeting, so I snapped this screenshot. During this Stafford Challenge small group meeting, Barb gave us the […]| Dare to Care
What a motley crew in this photo taken 30 years ago! Jim is the one in the back row with the red shirt and suspenders.Family–What a blessing!| Dare to Care
21 July 2025 TwoWritingTeachers.org| Dare to Care
To begin with, here are a few verses from one of my favorites, Psalm 19. This portion celebrates how the sun and other works of nature declare the glory of God.| Dare to Care
Liberty is a word I’d like to keep. How about you?| Dare to Care