Power of Story : Literacy Musing Mondays

Welcome back to Literacy Musing Mondays, Week 29.  Literacy Musing Mondays is a weekly linkup that features the best posts on literacy and reading.  The power of story and place touches us!  We love to share our voices and stories.

This week we continue our guest post series!  I am so excited to be connected to such a great sphere of bloggers who love literacy, reading, and learning.  Our guest poster this week our own, co-host Ashley Hales.

Ashley shares:

“It’s Always Been About Story”

I remember sitting with a spiral notebook on a rock by a little man-made lake at the end of our cul-de-sac. I was writing some horrible, pre-teen version of Christian fiction with characters named things like Cordelia with auburn ringlets. It was a writing disaster. Yet, it’s always been about story for me. From the books I read on the laps of my parents, to my Fisher Price plastic record player (where I got to listen to books on record), to reading Tom Sawyer by the light of the headlights behind our car at night — story has always had me in its grip.

I loved English classes and diagramming sentences and all the literary theories in graduate school. Even when I wrote my PhD dissertation, I really just wanted to get lost in a novel, for the sheer joy of getting enveloped in something so much larger than myself. So I keep coming back to narrative and that’s why I’ve named my blog Circling the Story because I want my little corner of the internet to a virtual spot where we can pull up blankets and chairs and find ourselves heard as we share our own stories. All of our stories — the hard ones, the joyful ones, the ones where we are right in the middle.

Now back to the linkup. What have you read this week? What literacy activities have you participated in with your family and loved ones. Please share. All family-friendly posts are welcome. 😉

Ashley @Circling the Story

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Mary @Maryandering Creatively

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Linking up with these hops this week: Inspire Me Mondays at Create with Joy, Inspire Me Monday at Angie Ryg,Mama Moments Monday, Motivation Mondays, Good Morning Mondays, Inspire Me Mondays at Table for 7, Mommy Monday Blog Hop, The Book Nook – Blog Party For Book Lovers!, Together on Tuesdays at Chronically Content, Totally Terrific Tuesdays, What to Read Wednesdays, and Booknificent Thursdays.