<p>Today’s podcast will be featuring a poem by Pat Mora, “Old Love.” As I read this poem, I want you to think about losing someone you love and the feelings that accompany that. I remember when I lost my grandfather. I remember the uncertainty, the unexpected numbness. I also remember specific, seemingly unimportant details like the color of the curtains or the paleness of his skin. Have you ever lost someone? What do you remember? How did the experience make you feel? Keep these ideas in mind as I read.</p>

You Go to My Head

In this series, I will be reading mentors texts and providing you and your students some quickwriting and/or discussion-based writing ideas. Writing can seem very challenging, especially to students who haven’t had a ton of practice. So, providing short, consistent and relatively low-risk opportunities to write can make all the difference in eliminating the intimidation factor that often comes with on-demand writing. I usually like my students to start our sessions by beginning with a quickwrite or, what I like to call, Writing into the Day.