Busy teaching, busy writing, busy coloring, busy chasing after Dutch, the old man wiener dog and Twig, the terrible min-pin puppy...

Life is good.

In my teaching, lately I've gotten a lot of questions around active vs. passive verbs. Maybe this example will help:

Passive

We all were running from the gigantic, fire-breathing death dog.

Active

We all ran from the gigantic, fire-breathing death dog.

And to SHOW this info rather than TELL it?

"Hey! It's a gigantic, fire-breathing death dog! Run!"

I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.