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About DrEMiller

Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT). Home: Sint Maarten. K-12 teacher for 13 years (Special Education for 10 years); Post-secondary educator since 2002; Education consulting since 1995. When teaching, held teaching certificates in K-12 special education, reading specialist; and secondary social studies. Doctorate: Educational Psychology Programmer/analyst for 10 years, including project management and training of corporate execs.

Day Seventeen of Writing 101: Your Personality on the Page

This is hopeless. Two days. That’s all I have. Two days, and then… Great products. Good support from my mentor. But… two more days. One person responded. Lose 2 to 3 dress sizes in just a few minutes? She’s curious. … Continue reading

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Day Sixteen of Writing 101: Third Time’s a Charm

Sometimes, when you move, you do your own packing.  Other times, if you are lucky, and an employer hires a service to do your packing, it seems far less of a chore.  However, I discovered years ago that it’s almost … Continue reading

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Day 15 of Writing 101: Your Voice Will Find You

And So It Ends It was a fun event last year–the annual Tea.  My first, but undoubtedly not my last, I thought at the time.  But I didn’t expect The Break.  Didn’t see it coming, never would have predicted it … Continue reading

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Day 14 Writing 101: To Whom It May Concern (or, Dear Visual and Psychological Perceptions)

Dear Visual and Psychological Perceptions, It has been a long time since I’ve addressed either of you. Visual Perception, I’d like to comment that I do not appreciate the distortions to my visual field during a migraine incident.  It is … Continue reading

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Day Thirteen Writing 101: Serially Found

Losing a furry or feathered family member can be difficult, as mentioned in the Day Four assignment.  When a pet dies, we can feel a hole in our heart or soul that needs filling or closing.  While extremely sad about … Continue reading

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Writing 101 Day Twelve: Dark Clouds…

Wow.  She waves to me while I check out. I am at a regular register toward the rear of the store; she is at the “special help” one, much nearer the exit.  My cart is right behind her at the door where the … Continue reading

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Day Eleven: Size Matters

A house!  My parents were buying a house, and we could move out of this apartment over a hardware store. Hooray! It was time to buy a house, my parents decided, because my sister had been born recently, and the … Continue reading

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Oy!

If you’ve been following my Writing 101 stuff at all, and read the explanation from the last blog, you know that I’ve been a busy bee lately.  My first post from the writing class was inadvertently placed on the Commons, … Continue reading

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What’s All This Writing 101 Stuff?!?

Hi, Followers and Fellow Bloggers! If you have read posts on this site in the past, you are probably wondering what all this Day X, Assignment, Writing101 stuff is, and why it’s on this education issues site.  And the answer is: … Continue reading

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Day 8: Writing 101 No Adverbs Allowed in this Descriptive Essay on Observations

I didn’t see what was going on. I was in the studio sketching with oil paints for the first time. The room is large, open, and has windows on three sides to optimize light within an old French-side building with a … Continue reading

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