Writerly Life

So we have been talking about a writerly life at school the last two weeks.  Personally, my goal is to start this blog and use it as an accountability piece to help me take steps toward living a more writerly way.  While thinking at length about my "small moments" to write my slice of life story, I decided to instead try my hand at some poetry about the moment I was in-unable to land on ANY thing to write.

words
flying around wildly
I want to catch them,
cage them,
tame them,
and show them off.
words escape me

i love my mom (as a pattern book)

I love my mom.

I love my mom when she says, "Good morning, Babe."

I love my mom taking me to school.

I love my mom making yummy meals for me.

I love my mom doing my laundry.

I love my mom playing board games.

I love my mom. She loves me too.

My Stats and Other Info

My name is Emily Culbertson.  I am in my mid-thirties (cringe).

I live in a small town about an hour from St. Louis, Missouri.  Growing up, I lived in the country, close to a much smaller town in Northeast Missouri.  I have much to say about that later. Isn't growing up in the country the best?

In my home there are now five boys (four sons and a husband), a lab named Lizzy, the strangest looking cat named Buttercup, and too many chickens.  We are a rowdy bunch, quite loud and usually needing a bath.  Being a wife and mom to these five boys is a dream come true.
In the wilds of my own youth, I was the oldest of five with two sisters and two brothers.  My mom was a single mom for the most part.  I have much to say about that later also. I love being from a big family.

I am a teacher.   I love it.

Let's Get It Started!

So, for a few years, my sister has told me to write a blog.  I know little to nothing of how to write a blog.  Yet, here I am, giving it a whirl.  I was finally motivated by the girls over at Two Writing Teachers when they presented their Slice of Life challenge for the month of March.  They are wordsmiths, invoking energy and passion.  Who am I to go against it?

I love to try new things. Hence, this new blog.  As the title states, these new things are sometimes fabulous, sometimes fail.