Monthly Archives: October 2015

Writing groups -to be cherished

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Joanne Toft

I am a writer who has a hard time sharing their work. Well, really isn’t that most writers? We always know there is something else that needs to be worked on. So a writers group is a hard community to begin … Continue reading →

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It’s Monday! What are you reading? – fiction with social issues

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Joanne Toft

This week I was traveling and my digital copy of Crenshaw came in from the library. What a wonderful world we live in when you can be 250 miles away from your library and still pick up your book you … Continue reading →

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Memories and things

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Joanne Toft

Today I was in southern Iowa putting a garden to bed for the winter. This garden is more than 120 years old. It has stones all around the borders of each bed and sits just off to the side of the … Continue reading →

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It’s Monday! What are you reading? non fiction and history

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Joanne Toft

I was all fired up to write a great post on adult and children’s non fiction books. We traveled some 280 miles today with rolling corn fields being harvest, sun shinning and wind blowing. I planned and plotted my thoughts … Continue reading →

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Carrots and color

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Joanne Toft

First we were at a typical fall temp of 50’s and 60’s then suddenly over the weekend we were shoved back into summer with a sparkling 95 degrees and blue skies. The heat and color change left us all wondering … Continue reading →

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It’s Monday! What are you reading? everything!

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Joanne Toft

I have chatted with a few folks in the last week and they look at me oddly when I say I am going home to read. What are you reading they say? Well, there are the daily newspapers on my … Continue reading →

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Learning no matter what! Yeah for first graders!

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Joanne Toft

Last week and yesterday I was all fired up to write about testing once again. It is that time of year where we are giving the first base line tests. This year only to 1st and 2nd graders. (in both … Continue reading →

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