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Your Spin Cycle Prompt {week of 11/3}

One of our Spin Cycle traditions is to write a Halloween Show ‘n Tell during the first week of November. So let’s keep that tradition! Write about your Halloween (photos, please!) and link up your Halloween recap anytime this week! I’ll share my Halloween Show ‘n Tell post with you on Friday. In the meantime, here are links to my Spin Cycle posts from previous years:

Halloween Recap 2011
Halloween Show ‘n Tell 2012
Halloween Show and Tell 2013

Spin Cycle at Second Blooming

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Another tradition here at Lemon Drop Pie is to take part in NaBloPoMo…National Blog Posting Month. Every November since 2009, I’ve been writing 30 blog posts in 30 days. I’ve been hemming and hawing about whether or not I’m going to participate this year, but at least I have the first two days done. We’ll see how I do for the rest of the month. Are any of you doing NaBloPoMo this year? Let me know, and we can support each other!

NaBloPoMo November 2014

See you tomorrow!

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Masks {Spin Cycle}

As a preschool teacher, I have to dress up in a costume on Halloween. As a preschool teacher, I don’t wear a mask with my costume on Halloween. Why not? Because the little ones I teach would freak out if their teacher appeared as someone different! A mask would hide my familiar face, and preschoolers need to see a familiar face when they come to school. Not wearing a mask is fine with me; it’s hard to breathe or see with a mask on. Wearing a mask makes me all claustrophobic.

Emmy Bunny Hat

Masks can also give you a sense of freedom, however. I’ve always wanted to go to a masquerade ball. The movies always make it look so romantic. To dance with a partner who wears a mask, have him fall in love with you, and then he turns out to be the prince. *sigh*

A figurative mask can be also freeing. Take a mask like this blog, for instance. When I began it, I thought I was invisible behind my blog and my fake name. I could write whatever I wanted and no one would know it was me. I once wrote a post about someone who wasn’t playing nice. I told the story in my favor, of course. I was in the right and she was in the wrong.

This mask of mine, however, proved to be weak. Too many people knew that I wrote this blog. Terrified that this person would somehow stumble onto my blog, I deleted the post. As far as I know, she never read my words, but I became scared of hurting someone if I wrote my feelings publicly. Sometimes I write whole blog posts in my head but never write them down just for that reason. And that, my friends, can make my blog quite safe and boring when I hide my true opinions. That’s a mask of a different kind, isn’t it?

Masks are complicated, more complicated than they seem at first. Do you wear a mask?

Take a look at some of the great posts about masks that these wonderful bloggers have written!



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