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Sara Marchessault

Waiting for Irma

The wind has picked up and is blowing through the trees that skirt around my house. It’s still light, not much faster or more fierce than a regular afternoon thunderstorm. You know the ones you could set your clocks by on a July afternoon in Tallahassee? And the rain…

If it’s good for the gosling…

Today I attended a networking event where I got to talk to cool moms about journal writing. One of them told me that she’s interested in what she’s read about the use of journal writing as a tool to help students process what they’ve learned. The second…

33 Experiments: Audio Recording

Who benefits from audio recording and why? When you find your life is too busy to use a written journal to track the workings of your mind, audio recording is an effective alternative. Audio recording is speaking your thoughts aloud in a meaningful and conscious way, making a recording while…