Today is Shakespeare's birthday, and it's also the anniversary of the day I started this blog. I've now been blogging for three...

The text of this hymn was written by Henry F. Lyte (1793-1847). Whenever I hear it, I think of evening chapels at boarding school. We woul...

You still have time to enter the Unnecessary Children's Book Sequels That Never Were contest. Or just to go over and read the hilariou...

I am sure you feel badly about many injustices in this world, but have you ever spared a thought for the words that are disappearing from ou...

Today in the mail I got my copy of Voices from the Middle , the magazine for teachers of middle school language arts put out by the National...

The DP blogs' theme for today is "Yellow." You can see thumbnails of how bloggers from around the world have interpreted this...

I woke up feeling lousy. Honestly, I can't remember a school year when I've been sick more, except for the year (or two or three - ...

I'm back from church and about to settle down with a good book, but I have a few links to share first: Last night was Earth Hour . Peop...

Since I was thinking about Sylvia Plath this week , I looked for some of her poems online and found this link to many of them . I wanted to...

I was surprised to see Sylvia Plath's name in the "In the News" sidebar on Google News this morning, and then sad when I lear...

I've been an absent blogger lately, and one of my readers has even complained. Given how few readers I have, this is a serious matter. ...

I've never been much of a Barbie fan, but when my daughter had a period of six months or so when she liked Barbie, we just went with it....

It's the first of March, and today's DP blogs' theme is "Glass." You can see thumbnails of the participants' phot...

This headline, Cypriots and UN soldiers in asparagus standoff , raised some Veggie-Tales images in my head, but apparently it is a very seri...

It's been a long time since I did a Poetry Friday post of my own, as opposed to just linking you to the list of other people's posts...

Here's this week's Poetry Friday roundup.

I loved this article by Edwige Danticat.

So, you miss a day or two of posting, and before you know it, it's been two weeks. I didn't intend to take a blog break but it look...

Book #1 of 2009 was Son of the Mob , by Gordon Korman. I picked up this book because of an article I read in a teacher magazine about pair...

Eric shows us a passage from Madame Bovary . Other DP bloggers have different interpretations of today's theme, Paths and Passages.