Today's poetry roundup is here .

I thought it might be fun to do a few posts on some of my favorite podcasts. Having something interesting to listen to is a good motivation...

And, we're back! Things went smoothly today except for a few glitches with the schedule - that is, which one we were following. It all...

Book #33 of 2009 was Missing Persons , by Stephen White. I like these books about psychologist Alan Gregory. Book #34 , Innocent Traitor ,...

The moment is almost here when I will take up stacks of papers with lists of the three books each student read over the summer. Before I ha...

Somehow I managed to go almost the whole summer without posting at all, but now that I am starting to gear up for going back to school, I ha...

This is my first real day of vacation, after the hectic weekend of graduation and parties. So I have spent today cleaning and working at ho...

I'm finishing up reading my students' final pieces from this quarter. Some are wonderful, but this is always a depressing time as I...

I asked my eighth graders to pick the final read-aloud for the year. I've been reading books aloud to them for two years and I've c...

It has always been difficult for me to find a balance between praying and worrying. Sometimes I have a tendency to start telling God how He...

"Language is always available, even to the poor, and you can have as much of it as you want." United States Poet Laureate Kay Rya...

It took me a week, but I'm back to finish the update I started last Sunday. Book #15 of 2009 was Lucas , by Kevin Brooks, an intense n...

Lately I have been kept busy by things mostly unbloggable - family illness, work work work, assorted frustrations - and meanwhile my list of...

I almost forgot! Since it is the first of the month, it is a DP Blog theme day, and today's theme is Shadow. Here you can see thumbnai...

I posted earlier about the Poetry in the Wild contest, where people were challenged to write a line of poetry somewhere other than a page, ...

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...