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Anne Elrod Whitney

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    What memories and Webb telescope images have in common (TBW #2, #9, #10)

    July 27, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    If you’re not excited about the Webb telescope images, you should be. (Yeah, I said it! Should! I am telling you what to do, and I don’t even care if it’s polite. I’m right here. Go look. Seriously.) They’re pictures of as far away as anyone has ever been able to see, and for that reason, they’re also pictures of…

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    Gymnastics coach Mike Spiller abused me in the 1980s and is still working with kids in Texas gymnastics, circus, and camps (TBW#1)

    June 25, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    In 1983 and for a while after, the gymnastics center in Northwest Houston that I attended held sleepovers. These were fun extras, like the lock-ins a church youth group might have. But, beyond the normal kid fun of a sleepover my friends, something else happened. My coach, Mike Spiller, whom I adored and whose attention and approval I craved, sexually…

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  • Justice - Uncategorized

    June 17, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Ironic? Now serving as Safety Monitor for a USA Swimming event.

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  • Justice - Uncategorized - Writing

    The Big Scary TBW List

    June 16, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Do you have a to-be-read list? Or shelf or pile or bags full, like my kids and I do? Are you such a cool reader kid you call it a TBR? There’s an art to the TBR, and I don’t have it. Take for example my friend and colleague Rob, who one magical year actually accomplished the impossible of actually…

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    Wrap your learning community in cushy foam?

    June 9, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    My son has a very, very cheap laptop, and I’ve been surprised how little he uses it. He likes gaming, coding, writing, making videos and podcasts, and all kinds of graphic arts, and this device was a gift for him to expand his skills, to play around in the more powerful and flexible environment of the PC as compared to…

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  • Writing

    Getting write down to the truth

    April 13, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    I’ve mentioned how 30 consecutive days of blogging in March renewed my desire to be writing as a way of being in my life. It’s as though I have remembered for myself all the things I so regularly structure or recommend for others: write informally. Write long and short and fast and slow. Write incompletely. Share writing. Springboard from the…

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    Force of Habit

    April 6, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    In March, I blogged every day as part of the Slice of Life Challenge hosted by Two Writing Teachers. Every day. I didn’t do every day well, or thoroughly, or at the same time every day, but I did it. Not going to lie, it felt amazing. My professional work and my own experience have taught me so much about…

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  • Teaching - Uncategorized - Writing

    Scary story

    March 31, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Invited to a classroom to write with some first and third graders:“You won’t scare the kids!” Nice thought, but truly, I wouldwere masking not still a thing.No amount of stickersor “Write On!” t-shirtor smiling enthusiasmor typewriter socksor book-print leggingsor punctuation skirtor gimmick or trick or jokecould make it less scary that Ihad both jaws broken then bolted back on with…

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    Some facts about pain

    March 30, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    My whole life, I’ve had a desire to somehow measure physical pain in a uniform way. Like so many other important human things, pain is on the inside of us, not the outside. Maybe sometimes we can see the cause of the pain, like a cut or a swollen foot. But the pain itself is just impulses running through nerves…

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    Regrets: a Haiku

    March 30, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Not a good idea Tried to move the couch myself And now it is stuck

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