Spring Cleaning Your Mind
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. When spring starts sending its warm breezes my way, I love nothing more than to throw open all my windows, get some...
Category: Gratitude
Using To Be or Not…To Be—That Was the Question!
Kyle Harley, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor Situated not too far in the distant past, a young, hopeful senior in college decided to embark on a writing portfolio as part of his minor’s requirements...
Finding a Voice
By Stephanie Thompson, Kaplan University Composition Professor Ron Suskind’s recent New York Times Magazine article describes his family’s attempts to connect to their autistic son, Owen, through his love of Disney animated films. A...
Open the Gate Wider – A New Year of Dreams, Forgiveness, and Impossibly Good Writing
I wish to bring in the new year with the hope and inspiration provided by poet, Maya Angelou. In her tribute here to Nelson Mandela, we move beyond the political to the heart of...
Where we’ve been … where we’re going: it’s going to be a heck of a ride
T.S. Eliot once wrote, “The end is where we start from.” I’ve been thinking about that line a great deal since learning I was going to be coming back to Composition and the WAC...
Poetry and Thanks
Happy day before Thanksgiving, dear readers! In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, I wanted to share poems from Poets.org related to gratitude and cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg’s awe-inspiring TED talk. Some of Louie’s gems...