• Each Small Commitment

    Hello, everyone!  This is Amelia writing today.  With NanoWrimo upon us, I thought that it would be a great time to bring up the topic of commitment.  For those who may not know, NanoWrimo is a time when many writers set out to write 50,000 words in thirty days. This is my first time to participate in it, and I am realizing just how much of a commitment it is!  In this post, I’d like to talk a little bit about what commitment means, an example of commitment, and what comes from our commitments.  Commitment means a dedication to a cause, even when that cause gets long and unappealing. One…

  • Sunbeams

    Hello everyone, this is Mattie! I just wanted to share a quote with you that I’ve had hanging up on my bookshelf for a few years. It’s from The Twits by Roald Dahl. “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly, You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out-teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of…