Edwidge Danticat has won a MacArthur Foundation grant! More information here.

Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is billed as "public radio's weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics and ideas....

How did I miss pointing you to the Daily Photo bloggers' theme day on the 1st of September? The theme this month was BIG and you can se...

I bought books #43 and 44 for my classroom and they are already proving popular. Gone and Hunger , by Michael Grant, are the first two ...

Take a look at this if you need a reminder of what a difference food can make to the starving. On the sidebar, you can donate to Tara'...

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, ...