Ms.+Woods

Things to know about me

1. One of my favorite nonfiction authors is David Sedaris. 2. I love farmer's markets and cooking organic, delicious food. 3. I belong to three different public libraries and I visit them all. 4. I have two cats--Agatha and Callie. 5. I just started a new blog that I'm keeping with my English 111 students: []

Here's my Bouts Rime:

Outside the edge of the margin, free of the scratchy, hastily drawn doodle, closer to the pencil-sketched waves of the sea, I draw roaming cats, flower pots, and poodles.
 * Inspiration**

As I add sunshine rays as sharp as the sky, the paper glares and bounces white on white while my words jump, scatter, and fly. At last an idea will appear and finally file

in through my thoughts. A single spark will arise that I stalk with stubborn force to its final demise.