Well, I very nearly succeeded with my NaBloPoMo ambitions - to post every day in November. I only missed one day. Meanwhile, my children f...

I should totally know better than to blog about being thankful for adversity. I should realize that such a post would make it inevitable ...

I found this story, "Finding Purpose After Living with Delusion," inspiring. Milton Greek has schizophrenia, and with the help o...

NPR did this interesting piece , complete with YouTube videos, on what happens when political candidates cry, from Muskie in 1972, when a ca...

It's now socially acceptable to listen to Christmas music, since it's after Thanksgiving. But I have to confess that this year I st...

There's just nothing like a long weekend, and a festive one like Thanksgiving weekend is better still. This morning I took advantage of...

I always do odes with my eighth graders during Thanksgiving week. I think odes go wonderfully with Thanksgiving, when we are so aware of th...

I didn't blog yesterday. So sue me. It was the first day I'd missed in November. Oh well, I never signed up for NaBloPoMo offici...

Robert Preidt writes, "Ever go into another room for something and then forget what you were there for? A new study suggests that simpl...

I was really happy to see that Edwige Danticat received the Langston Hughes Medal on Friday.

It's been a long time since I have talked much with anyone about the earthquake, and this week I had a few conversations about it. It s...

A Facebook friend posted that her son's middle school English teacher asked all the parents to listen to this episode of This American L...

Image credit www.haitixchange.com Today we have the day off school. November 18th commemorates the Battle of Vertières, a decisive victor...

Don't you love that word, whinging? I was using it around my family recently and was surprised to learn that they didn't know what ...

Perfumer Christian Brosius hates perfume. He even named his company "I Hate Perfume." Here's part of his manifesto: I hate p...

Saturday was the twenty-two month anniversary of the earthquake. I've mentioned before how the twelfth of the month doesn't crush m...

I absolutely can't resist an article whose title begins, "If Jane Austen lived today..." And this one is especially irresist...

She says teenagers fascinate her. It's a good thing, because she's been principal of the same junior high school for 48 years. Her...

I have been doing a lot of rereading lately, and I'm in the middle of several books. I haven't finished much. But here's what ...

I've been reading the complete works of Emily Dickinson, and finding gems along the way. Here's one that makes me think of "Su...