Walking Home from the Rangers Game at NCTE, I Saw a Building Decorated Like Christmas Oz and I Was Like, Whoa! It's Right Around the Corner

Sleep! Okay. The Travel Wore Me Out! I Was Grabbed by Dave, We Got Dinner, and Then I Was Out

Orange I'm Glad It's Humpday. Ready or Not, Denver, Here I Come & I'm Sporting New Sneakers for the Journey

The Best Part of Out-of-Town Guests (or any Company) Are the Left-Overs that Carry Over for the Rest of the Week

Papa Wooley and I Will be Presenting in Denver this Upcoming Weekend, But So Great Having Some of the Crew with Me on Mt. Pleasant this Weekend, Too

My Bourbon Sipping Friends Are in Town from State College and For a Night Anyways, Everything Feels Back to Normal

Working with Dr. Alice Hays Again, Year Four, As We Piece Together Our Thinking on Visual Literacy and WGI

Thursdays Are My Fridays, and Thursday Night, I Simply Collapsed. Time for Low-Key, Chill, Cerebral Accomplishments Without Needing to Be Present

Added Bonus to a Wednesday, with Thanks to Dr. Richard Novack (Fairfield Warde) Who Brought Dr. Lauren Leigh Kelly to Campus

Just Because the Eldest Sister Was Initiated in the "Clean Up in Aisle Five" Scenario, I Wore My Cynderballz Socks to Work Yesterday

Good Company is the Best Way to Start a New Week. Sporadic, Collegiate Lunches for the Rescue.

1st Birthday Parties Mean Delicious Cake. Welcome to the Age of Walking and Bringing Cuteness Wherever You Go, Ms. Maddie

With Total Exhaustion Hitting at 5 p.m. Last Night, I Revved Up the Engines and Decided to Grill for the Week

"I Knew I Was in the Right Place on the 1st Day of Class When We Were Greeted with Tangerines and a Bottle of Bubbles."

There Is Something Wonderful About College Students Writing 3rd-Grade Informative Essays (As If They're 3rd Graders).

Unfortunately, CT's Super Moon was Super Cloud-Covered, But I Felt Her Energy Nonetheless (I Am Mr. Moonbeam, After All)

Reflecting on an Old Tale That I Never Thought I'd Ever Reflect Upon. I Blame It on Age & Having a Two Year Old in the House This Summer

Throwing Back to 2009. The First Publication (While in Doctoral Classes) When I Started Thinking about Dis/ability Representation in YA Texts

Well, We're Back to Daylight Savings Time, Which Means Brighter Mornings and Much Earlier Nights. It Remains Something.

Like the Leaves on a Fallen Branch, So Our The Days of Our Lives (& Look At How They Match the Hulk)

I've Been in My Current Location for Over 11 Years and I Attest the Halloween Game Has Only Grown for Residents on My Street.

And Then There Is a Day with Kids and Purpose, Joy, Hope, Creativity, and Possibility Gets Restored.

Academic Job Alert: TESOL, Bilingual, World Language Assistant/Associate Professor: Please share widely. Would love to honor a stellar retiree with the next generation of excellence at Fairfield University.

Every Once in a While a Throwback Comes Your Way & You Can Smell Old Books, a House in Hamilton, a Camp, and Childhood Treasures

They're Called Black & Whites in Connecticut (Even When Orange & Brown), Half-Moon in Syracuse, and Cow Cookies in Kentucky

I Love Bringing My Spiritual Ordainment to Other Practices Beyond Marriage. I've Become Quite the Chaplain for Aviary Needs, Too

Entering Monday Wishing More Days Could Be Sunday. We All Need More Time In Our Lives for Us

Final Day of #WriteOut '25 - Marching on with Marching Bands Providing the Final Rhythm for this Year's Celebrations. Now for a Day of Rest.

Day 14, #WriteOut '25, In Between These Ears. A Rocky Start for a Saturday Wondering About the Way We Landscape Our Worlds

I Have Nothing to Say About the Cosmos, But the Cosmos Has the Last Say - #WriteOut '25, Day 13...Coincidences of What's Still in Bloom

Eye Don't Know, Day 12, #WriteOut '25. Off to Campus for a Very Long Day (Thankful, Always, to Writing Challenges to Keep Me Alive)

Day 11, #WriteOut '25: Walking with Robert. Also Navigating Age in a Right Shoulder and Now Ready For Retirement (Whaaaaaa! Ten More Years)

Day 10 - #WriteOut ... Didn't Have a Lot of Time to Appreciate the Outdoors But Did Catch a Bird or Two on My Roof (Perhaps they were searching for poetry, too)

Sneezing on a Monday, But Listening to the Chimes of the Day. Here We Go...Day 9, #WriteOut '25. I Need Rest From a Jam-Packed Weekend

Entering Day 8 of #WriteOut '25 & Celebrating I've Yet to Be Stung. Also, Proud to Have Made Another StoryFest Memorable for Teachers and Students

I Had To Breathe In & Out Yesterday Just to Make It Through All There Was on the Agenda, But I Did Get to #WriteOut '25, Day 7. The Skies Saved Me cultivatedcrandall.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-ha...

Day 6, #WriteOut '25. I Took My Undergraduates Outdoors to Write and am Thankful for the University's Zen Garden

Candles Burning at Both Ends (Just Get Me to Sunday for a Day of Supposed Rest). Day #5, #WriteOut '25. Field Note Poem (with love for Ann E. Burg)

#WriteOut '25 - Day 4: I Was Hiking My Usual Path When I Noticed a Neighbor Added Hutzpah to an Otherwise Intriguing Yard

Join us tonight for an interview with James Fester, 2025 #WriteOut Ambassador. @writingproject. We're talking about getting outdoors to write! It's Powerful! It's beautiful. He's brilliant!

Day 3, #WriteOut '25. I'm Heading to Middle Schools to Do Professional Development But Took a Moment in a Parking Lot to Sketch a Poem

Starting the 2025 #WriteOut Traditions a Little Differently (That Is, Sort of Out of Commission for a Wee Bit)(Oh, Poo). It is What It is.

Great Win Against Siena in 3! Match to the Stags and a Wonderful, First-Ever Publishing Party on Campus for Our Summer Writers

Here's to @StagsVB!!! Thanks for the great games and wonderful hospitality. Congratulations on another sweep! The Connecticut Writing Project appreciates the incredible appreciates the incredible collaboration. All joy, always.

Today is the Day - @CWPFairfield is Arriving to Support @StagsVB & Coach Somera's Leadership @FairfieldU. We Gotta Write! A'ight?! POW!

There's a Beautiful Magic That Sometimes Happens When All the Stars Align and Our Systems Get Out of the Way to Make Great Work Occur

Bring On #WriteOut 25, Oct. 12-26, the @WritingProject Tradition of Taking Our Work Beyond Classrooms & To the Places We Love

It Might Be Too Good To Be True, But Rumor Is I'm Waking Up This Wednesday to Rain, Quenching the Thirst of a Dry-Throated Northeast

Wonderful to Take Part in the Library's Annual Conversation About Banned Books and to Join Forces with Dr. Gwen Alphonzo Again.

Sunday Funday ... Thus Concludes Milford's Restaurant Week. We Called It Quits with Stonebridge & It Was Wonderful