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Sic parvis magna
Greatness from small beginnings. Equating life experiences to Latin phrases is an automatic for me. So is looking up the Latin roots of words. When we were growing up, my mom, the eternal Latin teacher, was always reminding us of where words came from. It’s hard to not look at a word and wonder where…
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Finding Liz
As I was thinking about who I am as a writer and continuing to do the work of knowing myself better through my internship, this image from the movie “Finding Dory” kept popping into my head. Dory gets trapped in a fishing net with so many other fish and Nemo helps save her by getting…
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Oh, There’s The Writer
Blind submissions. I didn’t really think about that phrase too much when I was just a writing student occasionally submitting my work to different literary magazines. When I would submit, usually assignments that I had worked on in a class, I would simply delete my name from the the top of the page. Liz Garden…
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Final Heat
All through high school, I spent most of my weekends at swim meets. Back then, in the early 90’s, in Virginia Beach, they had not yet created high school teams so I swam for a club team. I trained before school many mornings and after school every day. I was a good swimmer, in one…
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Two Things
Last week, I presented to a group of elementary principals from across the state of Massachusetts. My session was titled, “The Write Stuff Cafe: Prioritizing Writing Instruction.” In my presentation, I sprinkle in quotes. Some from famous authors and some from future famous authors…children. When thinking about my favorite things so far with my internship,…
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Hello,
I’m Liz
Welcome to the Write Stuff Cafe. Slide into a booth or hop onto a spinning counter stool and get ready to sip, write, repeat.
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