Last week I joined in with Paul Allison and TTT (Teachers Teaching Teachers) in using NowComment annotation and (brand new) AI tool. Here is the YouTube vid. Here is the sentence I annotated from the book, Long Division by Kiese Laymon: Therefore (I know Principal Reeves said that we should never write the “n-word” if…

  First firefly in the house this spring, bioluminescent telegram ALL CAPS to my eyes, wings and legs on my left hand. I have saved two lightning bugs of late. Maybe all is well or at the least, better. An omen. Amen.

May is the month when the lightning bug begins to sing.  Here in Kentucky, the weather has been most… risible so the fireflies have been unpredictable. This morning one of them landed on my hand and blinked its laughing light.  My Muse.  I was inspired to consider the question: is there a collective noun for…