Speech & Debate
You’re writing a speech. The first step is deciding on your topic, of course. After a long process of internal debate and external agony, you settle on something particularly meaningful and sit down to write. Then you stop yourself. Wait! you think. I can’t start writing yet, or I’d be violating The One And Only [...]
In the midst of this year’s debate season, with tournaments left and right and speech-writing eating my free time, I began to think. (That’s not usually something I engage in.) After all, a good number of you bloggy readers really don’t understand the world of this thing I refer to as “speech and debate.” For [...]
Wednesday afternoon, getting ready to leave: Toni: “You guys can just go win the tournament, okay?” Me: “Um…I think I’ll pass.” Thursday morning, standing outside of the impromptu room: Me: “I’m gonna die. I’m gonna die. I’m gonna die.” Anna: “No. I think you’re gonna break.” Me: “…I’m gonna die.” Friday evening, finished with preliminary [...]
Tomorrow, hoards of homeschoolers with a passion for talking and arguing will make their way to a place called Houston, for a tournament called the Warmup. So it begins. As usual, these final 24 hours find me memorizing a speech, giving a few random impromptus, and hoping Office Depot gets all that printing done on [...]
With great posts comes a great theme…or something like that. Honestly, I’m so picky I can’t hardly settle on a good theme to stick with. Thoughts on this one? In August, I turned 18. I celebrated by doing none of the things I can now legally do. I’m a licensed driver now. (It’s as awesome [...]
