Book #14 of the year was the new edition of the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. This edition came out last year, and I finally got a copy (...

I was supposed to post my angel poem today, but I didn't get it written this week. I'll postpone that, and meanwhile if any of you ...

As I wrote in this angel post , I considered the name Angels in the Architecture for my blog (from Paul Simon's song "You Can Call ...

Today we celebrated Christ's resurrection here in Haiti. It was a beautiful day, a day of praising God, a day of remembering, a day of ...

Today, April 23rd, is Shakespeare's birthday, and it is also the anniversary of the day I began this blog, five years ago.

I had big plans for yesterday's Poetry Friday post. It was Good Friday and Earth Day, so there were several directions I was considerin...

When you read my review of Greg Mortenson's book Three Cups of Tea , it sounds as though I have a bit of a crush on him. I even used th...

by Sara Groves It's been a hard year But I'm climbing out of the rubble These lessons are hard Healing changes are subtle But every ...

Again this week I'm sharing a poem I got in one of the two daily poem emails I'm receiving for National Poetry Month. (You can find...

When I start to write my Poetry Friday post on Thursday night and realize I haven't posted since the previous Poetry Friday, I wonder wh...

I have been enjoying getting two daily poems in my email (for information on how to sign up, you can see my Poetry Friday post for last wee...

Not that I exactly want to do this, but the Miss Rumphius Effect has a great post on resources for teaching about earthquakes here . (Bonus ...

As anybody who reads this blog regularly knows, I read and love poetry year-round, but I do really enjoy National Poetry Month, and the extr...

On Saturday we had lunch with a friend who lost his wife in the earthquake. In some ways he is doing amazingly well and in other ways he is...

Today's Daily Photo Blog theme was Edges. Here you can see thumbnails of the participants' photos.

I am writing this post on the Monday before it will be published, since I'm home sick today and have the time. (Oh, I do hope I'll ...

Today I finished my fourteenth book of the year, but I can't link you to it because it isn't published (yet). I read the book my 13...

A year ago today, I posted this , which includes an excerpt from an email from a friend who was in Haiti and had been in my classroom. I mi...

A year ago today I posted this about daffodils. Spring was coming where I was, in my place of exile from home. It made me smile. Other t...

On Thursday I was teaching a lesson to my seventh graders, and a fly was buzzing around. I was swatting vaguely but not paying too much att...