Picking a Partner

By Lynn Slaughter / March 17, 2017 /

The other day, I was talking with my English composition class about the importance of identifying their criteria of evaluation in working on their upcoming “write a review” assignment. I pointed out that in our everyday lives, we’re constantly doing evaluations

College and Class, Part 2

By Lynn Slaughter / March 9, 2017 /

Some months ago, I wrote about the differences between my college experience as an upper middle class kid at an Ivy League college and the  more challenging experience of my commuter university students,

Exceptions to Novel Writing Advice

By Lynn Slaughter / February 25, 2017 /

When I got to grad school, one of the first things impressed upon me was that if I wanted to write novels, I needed to pay careful attention to character development.

The Comparison Trap

By Lynn Slaughter / February 18, 2017 /

My husband and I love working on our own original songs (He plays guitar and composes the music, and I sing and write the lyrics). Now that he’s retired, he’s become

Confessions of a Workaholic

By Lynn Slaughter / February 11, 2017 /

Last weekend, I spent all day Saturday reviewing and commenting on my students’ first drafts of their memoirs, as well as working on Sunday’s comprehensive sexuality education

A Teacher at Heart

By Lynn Slaughter / February 6, 2017 /

The other day, I was flipping through my old high school yearbook. There I stood in the back row

The Downside and Upside of Getting Older

By Lynn Slaughter / January 14, 2017 /

For my older son’s wedding, one of his aunts, a professional photographer, put together a slide show of the growing up years of my son and his beautiful bride. They were both such neat kids, and I loved every minute of it. As the groom’s mom, I appeared in several photos with my then young…

Reading the Obits

By Lynn Slaughter / January 7, 2017 /

“Are you reading about dead people again?” my husband asks me. “Heck, yeah.” Obituaries are a goldmine for writers

About Those New Year’s Resolutions

By Lynn Slaughter / January 1, 2017 /

New Year’s resolutions have always struck me as psychic downers-in-the-making. Sure, I’d love to lose ten pounds.

The Stuff We Don’t Put in Our Holiday Letters

By Lynn Slaughter / December 25, 2016 /

When a dear friend called me this week from Arizona, she rasped out “Merry Christmas” and promptly went into a coughing fit. “What’s going on? Are you okay?” 

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