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Judy Dunn is a writer, blogger and content marketing specialist. Her blog, Cat's Eye Writer, is on the alltop.com list of best blogs and a winner of a Write to Done Top 10 Blogs for Writers award. Judy is currently working on her first book, a memoir about the heart-wrenching questions of who our beloved children are, how well we know ourselves and what hidden cultural forces conflict with the values we have chosen for our lives.
Writing my memoir is teaching me a lot about story. Because the best ones read like novels, I’m structuring it with plot, colorful characters and scenes that build to the climax where the main character will have to choose between two overwhelming but conflicting needs. So, throughout the book, we get to watch her squirm [...]
Kids come to school with ideas already formed. About winning and losing. About being the best at something. About being stronger. Smarter. More cool. As a first grade teacher, I liked to shake things up a bit with my students. Challenge their little worlds. Get them to think differently.
Kids come to school with ideas already formed. About winning and losing. About being the best at something. About being stronger. Smarter. More cool. As a first grade teacher, I liked to shake things up a bit with my students. Challenge their little worlds. Get them to think differently.
I wrote a blog post at Cat’s Eye Writer last spring called “Blogging Is Writing Is Life.” My dad had just died and I wanted to celebrate his life. One reader’s comment surprised me. She said, “When I found out your dad had died, I immediately thought about that post you wrote about trying to [...]
In my younger days of entrepreneurship, after I left teaching but before I found my true life’s passion, I tried on a few different business ideas. My first rule for launching a business was that I would need to have fun. There were other requirements, of course, but if it wasn’t something I absolutely loved [...]
Several months ago, someone stole my blog. Technically, they copied it word for word and slapped it up on the Web with a bunch of disgusting, spammy links. Boy, was I pissed. Long story short, I had moved my blog from Typepad to WordPress and someone snatched up my old domain. Can’t quite figure out [...]
Take a page from the Major League Baseball playbook and learn how to get out of your blogging slump.
Andy Warhol said that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame in their lifetime. It might be true of invisibility, too. I know. I was invisible for 15 minutes. Never happened before that, hasn’t happened since. All I can say is that it was a surreal experience. Several years ago my husband Bob and I walked [...]
Nice Is Not a Word: What I Learned about Blog Commenting at Recess
If you have ever been on a school playground with a bunch of first graders, you noticed something right away. 6-year-olds are social creatures—highly verbal—but they have not yet learned to settle their differences without adult intervention. When I was a first grade teacher, in one of my many former lives, I saw a certain [...]