In church on Sunday we sang a well-known hymn, but the words were slightly different from what I had learned. The original text goes like t...

Here's today's Poetry Friday roundup.

A piece in the October 6th New Yorker begins this way: "I have a theory that life is junior high," Tom Brokaw said last week, roam...

Today I read Naomi Shihab Nye's poem "What Travel Does" with my eighth graders. It is in the book A Maze Me . For copyright ...

Here's yesterday's Poetry Friday roundup. I'm still spending most of my time working, though I did listen to the debate Thursd...

Today's DP Blog theme is "Lines." This lends itself to many interpretations, and the talented photographers had a lot of fun....

I got an email from a friend the other day asking where I went, since I haven't posted anything here in over a week. The answer is that...

It's Bird Day again.

I've become a weather junkie. I'm always checking out Weather.com , the National Hurricane Center , and, most lately, Yahoo Weather...

To Night by Joseph Blanco White (1775 – 1841) Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew ...

Well, has it? Find out here. (You can find out what this thing is here , if, like me, you never heard of it until today. Thanks Tricia .)

I'm shocked to see that Haiti doesn't even make the Google News front page, but here's some more on what is going on and what yo...

I can understand why people worship the sun. That feeling you get when it appears in the sky after days of gloom is certainly a spiritual o...

Cathedral in Gonaïves after Hurricane Hanna, Photo from Yahoo News Here's what happened in Gonaïves, Haïti during Tropical Storm Jeanne ...

I'm up early - I can't remember what woke me, but when I went to check on the kids (as I do almost every time I wake up in the night...

Someone at a staff meeting referred last week to C. S. Lewis' sermon Learning in Wartime . I had read it before; back in 2001, after Se...

I am thanking God it's Friday. (And here's today's Poetry Friday roundup , by the way). This week was a rough one, for several...

Today's Theme Day for the Daily Photo blogs is Sister Cities. Here you can see the thumbnails of participants' photos.

I have a rotten cold, but of course I worked sick. The thought of getting ready for a sub is so very daunting that I usually do. I know, I...

So we're home again today, and it's raining and raining and raining. A bedroom ceiling is leaking (I removed a nearly full five-gal...