Photo Friday: Graduation 2012

Thought I’d end the week on a happy note.  My cousin graduated from high school last night.  I took a few shots of the field.  I especially loved the sparkly 2012 adorning the goal post.

Writing and Being: Painful Memories

I recently purchased a book entitled Writing and Being: Taking Back Our Lives Through the Power of Language from the clearance section of my local Half Price Book store.  When I first flipped through the book, the language seemed a little flowery, but for $1, I figured I could find something useful out of it.

As I whipped through the introduction, something seemed very familiar about this style of writing.  I know I hadn’t read the book before, but as I skimmed through the book, I realized that I’d already been subjected to half of the writing exercises in this book.  This book undoubtedly was the basis for roughly 60% of my senior year English class.  And I had hated 100 % of it.