Omigosh, I loved this video so much. I’ll have to share it with my classes, too — all about writer/illustrator Oliver Jeffers and the creative life.
It makes me want to change my life.
I have to credit Aerogramme Studio again.
I found this on the Aerogramme Studio site. To test a sentence to see whether or not it is cast in passive voice, try adding “by zombies.” If it can be added, then you know it’s passive.
The sentence was written on the whiteboard … by zombies.
The post was added that evening … by zombies.
Not that some passive constructions aren’t okay, but still–
…to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men … by zombies …
You get the idea. 
Last night while being a supportive mom, hanging out at Barnes & Noble with one of my daughters while she did math (I was no actual help, mind you), I decided to read first paragraphs of several novels. This was my favorite:
“To take an interest in the affairs of others is entirely natural; so natural, in fact, that even a cat, lying cat-napping on top of a wall, will watch with half an eye the people walking by below. But between such curiosity, which is permissable, and nosiness, which is not, there lies a dividing line that is painted red and marked by the very clearest of warning signs.” –Alexander McCall Smith, The Right Attitude to Rain
Spring is just around the corner, and spring break. The trees are not green yet, but I can see the buds on the trees in my yard and they give me hope.
I open my collection of Rumi’s poems, and I find this line: “What you seek is seeking you.”
