Today my creative writing class and I took a walk. Just for ten minutes. Out around our small town and then back into our classroom. We walked quietly, without talking, and I asked them to just "see and listen and feel." Then we wrote about it it when we got back in our journals.

When I asked for feedback, a couple of the students said some pretty terrific things that I thought I'd share. First, one student talked about how much a walk gives him the time to sort through his thoughts in a way that