My daughter and I have spent this week with my parents in Florida, since we had some time off of school for Carnival. My husband and son st...

I read a lot this year about anti-Valentine sentiment, or AntiValentinism, as this blog post calls it. Although I am happily married and e...

A Facebook friend introduced me recently to Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience. She particularly pointed out th...

I read this week about the death of Wislawa Szymborska . Even though Szymborska won the Nobel Prize in 1996, when I was old enough to be pa...

I messed up so many details today. I flaked out on paperwork I had promised to have finished, got days wrong on my schedule and caused prob...

February seems a good time to think about flowers. Where I live, they grow all the time, but in the north you can now only find them at the...

Today's Daily Photo Blog theme (the first of each month is their Theme Day) is Animals. You can see thumbnails of participants' pho...

I'm home from the beach, where I went for a retreat this weekend with the people I work with. We had a wonderful time. The ocean was b...

I really don't think I'm going to get a moment to post anything today for Poetry Friday. Just in case I don't, go here and read...

I found a poem today that was new to me, but the ideas and feelings in it are not new at all. I love finding evidence that some things don...

Katie has started sharing the notes she took the night of the earthquake and for a few subsequent days. You can read that here and here ....

Two years ago in the wake of the earthquake, I moved suddenly to the United States. I went from tropical weather to a cold, leafless Januar...

I'll be honest: I've hardly read any of the links in the post I sent you to this morning. I did read the one about how Haiti can be...

Lexi has been reading about the anniversary and here's her post .

"Why," sighed an exasperated middle schooler this morning, "do they always have to mess up the schedule every quarter ?...

My daughter is currently obsessed with Les Misérables , the book and the musical . The first time she watched the musical, she described it...

For the past few years, since 2009, I have chosen One Little Word for each year. In 2009 the word was "LOOK." In 2010 the wor...

The first day of every month is Theme Day at the City Daily Photo blogs. On the first of January, the DP bloggers post their best photo fro...

I only read 40 books this year. That's not even one a week. I hope to make it to at least 52 next year. The links in the list below a...

I'm getting ready to compile my list of everything I read this year, but there are several on my list that I've never blogged about....