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Via hipteacher... (about a hundred years ago... I'm always up-to-date)

1. Why did you start blogging?

Actually, I started a now defunct online journal back in 1998 - Brain Floss. I started blogging after I was laid off in 2001 before I even thought about becoming a teacher... it's all a writing exercise. I love to write, but often find that I don't have time to do or get distracted. Blogging is a way to almost force myself to write something.

2. What do you blog about primarily? My life. Sometimes teaching is in the forefront, sometimes it's my garden, sometimes it's politics. As an exercise for my writing, really I write whatever it on my mind at that moment.

3. Professionally, what do you get out of blogging? A release of stress and writing out my thoughts helps to organize them or make me realize that I need to go into a new direction.

4. Personally, what do you get out of blogging? A sense of life outside of school. I had a friend ask me just yesterday if all teachers spend as much time as I do at school (she's thinking of becoming a teacher). They don't. I choose to devote as much time as I do because I'm insane, and get bored easily. Balance is not an easy thing for me.

5. What advice would you give to new blogging teachers? Don't publish anything you don't want others to know - blogging is not anonymous, not matter how you try to "hide your identity".

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