Writing

I like to write.  I started writing when I was eight or nine years old.  Some of that stuff I still have - it is funny.  Reading some journals I wrote during high school...how do we make it to adulthood? We are nuts when we are in high school.  It is true I wrote more when times were tough - All the great writers do that don't they? Write now I am writing and Action Based Research Paper as the culminating assignment for my Master's Degree in Curriculum & Instruction.  This writing is hard, thinking writing - I write better about feelings and such.  Of course it does not help that my head hurts when I read more than a paragraph - lame excuse but it is true.  I believe in the work.  Increasing student comprehension through a fluency intervention based program.  It works, I know - and it is important! We need to improve reading comprehension across all grade levels.  Open a book and you open a door to the world.  I also enjoy reading. Reading is important.  Every school, parent, sibling; we should really read more! We should write more.  Writing is cheaper than therapy.  Writing about the correlation between increased fluency and an increase in comprehension test scores - ZZZZZZZ! I'm not complaining though.  My bucket list - get this darn Masters! By golly I am going to make it! Oh, and the gown and hood you have to wear - it is really odd. The sleeves have holes for your hands, they also have pockets for your hands - how that hoody thing is going to hang around my throat without choking me - I don't like things around my throat! Why do they call it a hood, we don't wear it on our head, we wear it around our throat down our back - what is that, not a scarf? Oh, I don't know, but I have one - I am a few pages (OK, maybe a fifty or sixty pages) away from crossing it off my bucket list! This is what matters.  I will write more fun stuff, more me stuff - I will write about the moment I stumbled across the stage in my funny sleeved gown with a "hood." Then I will get out my bucket list and cross off that bad boy! Bam!