Haiti is in the news again, and as usual it's not for anything good. I feel a bit about this new story the way I did back in February 2...

I've been cleaning up my room today, shutting it down for the summer. I'm about to go home for the day, and I have half an hour or ...

School is out. One thing I have been looking forward to, while grading the mounds of work, entering the grades, writing the comments, was w...

The last day of one thing leads to the first of another, and today is the first day of summer vacation. Officially, it really isn't; to...

Today was the last day of school. We had our Eighth Grade Promotion this morning, and then we had a DVD for the kids, but most of them just...

I'm awfully busy today, since it's the last full day of classes. I don't think I'm going to get around to a Poetry Friday p...

In her afterword to The Help (which was book #17 of the year), Kathryn Stockett quotes Howell Raines: "There is no trickier subject f...

I was excited to hear last week that J. Patrick Lewis was the new Children's Poet Laureate. I was going to post about it this morning b...

In this post I shared two poems that asked angels questions. I said I was going to write my own poem asking angels questions, and I did. ...

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...