Language Hearts

By ice rivers

Can't Shake Off English Class

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Regarding Mr. Fate and Trish

By ice rivers on Sat, 27 Feb 2016

Lucien Fate, our favorite teacher Had a spirit covered with rust. An overeducated creature, Who lorded over high school middle crust. Fate believed...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

"Air Quotes" in Lipstick Land

By ice rivers on Tue, 21 Mar 2017

"It' has frequently been argued that there are too many "air quotes" at work in written renditions of solipsistic" lipstick land". "Lipstick land" is...
Quotations
Rant
Philosophy
Other
Certificate PG

"Quotation Marks" (a solipsistic essay)

By ice rivers on Sat, 13 May 2017

Let's get started on quotation marks, shall we? The solopsist in "me" believes that quotation marks can not be overused as air quotes serve to...
Quotations
Other
Certificate 12

A Prosaic Portrait of Inner Sadness

By ice rivers on Sat, 27 Feb 2016

By the time that Lucien Fate, everybody's favorite teacher, had traveled fifty times around the sun, he had accumulated a substantial layer of rust...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Story
Certificate U
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an essay on intuition and pervasive gladiolae

By ice rivers on Mon, 01 May 2017

I've always been a believer that we use intuition to gather information rather than to process it; much in the same way that we use our senses. I...
Philosophy
Opinion
Other
Certificate 12

Analyzing Rhonda

By ice rivers on Sun, 24 Jan 2016

This morning we will discuss not only the importance of pronunciation as well as imagery differentiation but also the contrasts between inner/outer...
Philosophy
Humour
Other
Certificate PG

Conventional Broken Moondance in 16 steps

By ice rivers on Sun, 24 Jan 2016

In space there is no up or down. This is good because most renderings of the moon are upside down. The renderings are based upon the way that the...
Rant
Philosophy
Nature
Non-fiction
Certificate PG

Decomposition

By ice rivers on Tue, 02 May 2017

In the beginning..... A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A paragraph is a sentence or a group of interconnected...
Opinion
Other
Certificate 15

Entrance Exam

By ice rivers on Sat, 13 May 2017

Let's go back to that famous drawing of either the old hag or the beautiful woman where the shoulder of the beautiful woman is also the nose of the...
Other Non-fiction
Opinion
Story
Certificate 12

Erika From A Distance

By ice rivers on Thu, 21 Apr 2016

Sometimes it's important to see things through the eyes of others. We received this letter from a niece named Erika who lives in North Carolina. Lynn...
Other Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Certificate U

Howling Hearts Stand Still

By ice rivers on Thu, 21 Jan 2016

The appeal of the underdog is a howl from the heart. Each time we pull for the underdog, we experience the eternal struggle between heart and mind;...
Spiritual
Nature
Opinion
Miscellaneous
Love
Non-fiction
Certificate PG

Ironic Foolish Clowns

By ice rivers on Thu, 23 Mar 2017

I've been dedicating a lot of foolish thought to clowns lately. Apparently, at least in the Shakespearean model, more clowns exist on this earth than...
Philosophy
Non-fiction
Certificate 12

Ironic Foolish Clowns Too

By ice rivers on Thu, 23 Mar 2017

Furthermore Clowns are ridiculous but worthy, virtual and sensible to a fault. Clowns gracefully accept their own clumsiness. Clowns are more long...
Opinion
Non-fiction
Certificate 12

What Thinking Looks Like

By ice rivers on Mon, 20 Mar 2017

This is just an idea. No, that wasn't an idea, that was a thought, if that. This is just an idea is a sentence. A sentence is a group of words...
Rant
Other
Certificate PG

Human Being Tense

By ice rivers on Tue, 21 Mar 2017

Unless you are a fictitious person, as I occasionally am, you are a human being. Let's invert that You are being human. To error is human. You are in...
Other Non-fiction
Other
Certificate 12

Omnincompetent

By ice rivers on Wed, 12 Apr 2017

I realize that first person point of view is often regarded as omniscient. The writer is in control of his universe and knows everything about...
Rant
Philosophy
Opinion
Other
Certificate 12

Maybe tis better maybe to be than maybe not to be

By ice rivers on Tue, 23 May 2017

Take the word "maybe". Please Maybe is made up of two verbs, may and be. In the case of maybe, two verbs together are not verbs, they are united...
Drama
Opinion
Non-fiction
Certificate 12

Limited Future In The Past

By ice rivers on Thu, 25 May 2017

Back in the distant past, not too many middle class guys had much of a future. We were draft bait. Our right to go to college and seek a career was...
Rant
Opinion
Miscellaneous
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate 15

Spelling List Racket

By ice rivers on Thu, 25 May 2017

Yeah the spelling lists were a racket. Pre-test on Monday. Attach homework assignment. Write a sentence for each word on the list. Due tomorrow. On...
Rant
Non-fiction
Certificate 15

Taking the Fourth

By ice rivers on Fri, 26 May 2017

Why I refuse to call my writing "humorous" except for this one which is the least humorous of all. Maybe this summary will clear matters up. Ha Ha Ha (sob)
Nature
Other
Certificate U

To Intentionally Split

By ice rivers on Sun, 28 May 2017

What the hell, let's break some rules. We're told to never split infinitves. Most of us don't even know what an infinitve is so how would we know to...
Quotations
Rant
Other
Certificate 12

Wraparound Feathers

By ice rivers on Mon, 29 May 2017

In the beginning..... A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A paragraph is a sentence or a group of interconnected...
Rant
Other Non-fiction
Opinion
Story
Certificate 18

Sad and Beautiful and Grotesque (A Report)

By ice rivers on Tue, 30 May 2017

I always hated writing "book reports" because I was taught that they had a format. Naturally, anything that has a format is distractive to me as I...
Reviews
Other
Certificate 12

Dramatic, Grammatical Denial

By ice rivers on Wed, 31 May 2017

Pronouns. Yeah, I take 'em personally. Especially when it comes to grammatic, dramatic denial. Someone mistook Robert Mitchum for Gary Cooper when...
Quotations
Rant
Other
Certificate 18

Swiftly Making Buds

By ice rivers on Tue, 04 Jul 2017

One day at a seminar on Aerospace, Krell was listening to a windbag whose lack of empathy manifested itself by confusing the incomprehensible with...
Rant
Opinion
Story
Certificate 15

Teaching, Reading, Viewing and Criticizing Gatsby

By ice rivers on Sat, 08 Jul 2017

Once upon a time in an English Department not far away, I asked one of my colleagues if he had ever read a certain book. “Read it? I haven’t even...
Reviews
Story
Certificate 15

Teach to the Test and Commence

By ice rivers on Mon, 24 Jul 2017

If you're gonna teach it, you've got to test it. If you're gonna test it, you've got to teach it. Create the test at the beginning of insruction not...
Spiritual
Rant
Story
Certificate 15

September

By ice rivers on Thu, 07 Sep 2017

September is a bittersweet time for retired teachers. For those of you still in the game, cherish the opportunity..embrace the responsibility and...
Opinion
Love
Other
Certificate 15
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This Is Your Writer Speaking

By ice rivers on Fri, 22 Sep 2017

Your writer has been reading about languages that don't include the pronoun "I" and instead use the relationship of the first person to the second...
Humour
Opinion
Love
Story
Certificate 15

A Model of Incremental Repetition

By ice rivers on Sat, 28 Oct 2017

DID You Miss Me When I was Gone? I missed you that's why I'm so glad to be back. I turn on my lamplight and get a shadowy glimpse of many of you. I'm...
Spiritual
Surreal
Other Non-fiction
Other
Certificate 15

The Usual Unusual

By ice rivers on Wed, 22 Nov 2017

The time is finally right to read Hawthorne. I knew I'd get there eventually. Another example of art being forced down the throats of kids struggling...
Opinion
Non-fiction
Certificate 15

Truth and Beauty

By ice rivers on Thu, 07 Dec 2017

Truth is beauty, beauty truth. Science is aimed at truth, art aimed at beauty. When we examine our degrees, do they indicate an interest in beauty or...
Philosophy
Other
Certificate 15

Va Va Voom

By ice rivers on Mon, 11 Dec 2017

Yesterday, one of my friends posted her picture on FB. She gets down once in awhile about her appearance. She’s worked hard to lose weight and she...
Other Non-fiction
Horror
Humour
Story
Certificate 15

Birthday Blues

By ice rivers on Tue, 19 Dec 2017

My birthday is December 30th. December 30th is also the birthday of Tracey Ullman, Sandy Koufax, Rudyard Kipling and Tiger Woods. I'm not adept at...
Miscellaneous
Autobiography
Story
Certificate 15
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Mike Can Draw Beautiful Connections

By ice rivers on Fri, 29 Dec 2017

Mike not only continued to draw but he also continued to listen with purpose and intention. Mike observed not only with his eyes but also with his...
Romance
Other Non-fiction
Biography
Miscellaneous
Autobiography
Story
Certificate 15

Adam Asleep 400

By ice rivers on Mon, 02 Apr 2018

Learning? I’ll tell you about Learning! You’re asleep in a dark room. It’s nighttime. You’re having a dream that is nowhere near lucid. The dream is...
Spiritual
Surreal
Philosophy
Other
Certificate 15

Mister Badger

By ice rivers on Wed, 18 Apr 2018

I became a teacher for many reasons, one of them being Mr. Badger. Mister Badger was my history teacher during my junior year. Badger associated good...
Philosophy
Autobiography
Story
Certificate 15

Romantic Love and Marriage

By ice rivers on Sat, 17 Nov 2018

Romantic love demands obstacles. While we fall in love and before mystery inexorably turns into history, we discover the obstacles and barriers that...
Romance
Philosophy
Love
Non-fiction
Certificate 15

Butterfly ( I Say Essay)

By ice rivers on Mon, 03 Dec 2018

Every night I fall asleep while thinking about writiing. Eventually, a fraction of these thoughts will turn into words that stay. They will turn into...
Spiritual
Nature
Opinion
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Other
Certificate 15

A Stream Under Maybay Moon

By ice rivers on Fri, 07 Dec 2018

Right now, at this very instant, I am writing in the stream of consciousness. Writing in the stream is a telepathic method of telling you what I've...
Talecatching
Miscellaneous
Love
Other
Certificate 15

Breakfast With Mary

By ice rivers on Thu, 13 Dec 2018

Double yolk eggs are single eggs that happen to have two yolks in them. They happen when a hen releases one yolk too soon after a prior one, and both...
Spiritual
Surreal
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Non-fiction
Certificate 15

Leaving Joyce for Turgenev

By ice rivers on Wed, 13 Mar 2019

I'm a reader who has long contended that incomprehendible writing is not brilliant writing. So recently I was laboring my way through Ulysses when my...
Opinion
Other
Certificate 15