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Anne Elrod Whitney

  • Family - Justice - Uncategorized

    Pop Quiz, or, Report to my employer on the last three years after a “Sabbatical.”

    January 28, 2023 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    (Dear reader, I know there is irony in speaking of truth and then redacting parts of this post. However, my commitment to living in the truth does not extend to telling other people’s truths on the internet, and so I have hidden details pertaining to other people where I felt the need to give them the gift of privacy.) Now,…

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  • Teaching - Uncategorized - Writing

    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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  • Uncategorized

    Rest is the best

    March 26, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    A few days ago, my friend Ona over at On A Thought wrote about Spending Time. I can’t stop thinking about it. Right when I read it, I went in to comment, thinking something like “Amen!” or “Preach!” But as so often happens to me, once I started writing, I started having things to say. Lots of things to say,…

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  • Teaching - Writing

    Any writers here?

    March 23, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    “Are there any writers here?” Being a specialist in teaching writing, writer identity, emotions and writing, and writing research, I ask that question a LOT when I work with any group of people. I have asked it of college freshmen, kindergarteners, and students at every stage in between. I have asked it of beginning teachers and classroom veterans, of doctoral…

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  • Uncategorized - Writing

    Equinox!

    March 22, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    On an equinox, day and night are of equal length; the dark time and light time balance each other. This Sunday was the Vernal Equinox, but it also was a sort of personal equinox for me. It is a time of turning over to a new season, on levels literal, emotional, metaphorical. There really have been no appropriate bins of…

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  • Uncategorized

    Mornings working from home

    March 20, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Some mornings I need a little more quiet time than most mornings have. Time for coffee, for sitting in my bathrobe looking at nothing, just sitting. Time for the dreams to fade and the body to loosen. Time for prayer or notebook writing or a shower or to just take a minute, or to dress or take pills or make…

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  • Teaching - Uncategorized

    Ah, high school memories

    March 10, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Remember when I had my hair shaved on one side of my head, wore clothing all the wrong sizes, and hated everyone my age? Remember when I joined the golf team? Very upstanding! But I never broke 100, and felt dumb with the other girls, and played one tournament, then had a panic attack in the van for the next…

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  • Faith - Teaching - Writing

    The blessing of an extreme lack of authority

    November 15, 2017 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    I wish someone had told me years and years ago:  It is not only OK, it is a gift to possess no authority or expertise whatsoever. Sure, in areas of life in which I am the responsible party, I need authority to carry out my work. And I’ve spent a good chunk of my professional life thinking hard about the…

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  • Faith - Writing

    On making time to pray like I make time to write (when there isn’t any)

    March 30, 2017 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    On time for writing-- and time for praying

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