by Catherine Porter PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI—Some mysteries are like religion. They linger, forever out of reach, promising only possibility an...

I never even heard of a synchroblog before last week, and now I'm participating in my second. Sarah Bessey wrote: "I wrote a lit...

So I was searching for something sporty to post today, in honor of the Olympics, and I found this from December 2010, explaining about how ...

This is a great interview Tavis Smiley did with Edwidge Danticat about her book Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. She exp...

I was out all day today having fun, and I have nothing for Poetry Friday. But fortunately lots of other people posted. So go enjoy what t...

Book #21 of this year was All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir , by Brennan Manning. I haven't read much of Manning's work, but I kno...

This letter is part of the SheLoves magazine synchroblog here . Dear Body, So, the assignment is to write you a love letter. I'm not s...

A little Mary Oliver. Click on the photo to read a larger version. How would you live then? I wish I could live all of life the way I liv...

The Mower to the Glow-Worms by Andrew Marvell Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late, And studying all the su...

As we sat on the porch of the cabin, looking out over the woods, my husband said, "This reminds me of Tintern Abbey." He read the...

I was away from the internet for Poetry Friday but here's the roundup. And I'd just like to report I had a wonderful day, in spite...

I'm traveling today, going between the place where I live most of the year and the place where I spend several weeks traveling in the su...

Book #9 of this year was The List , by Siobhan Vivian. This book came out at the beginning of April and by the time I heard the author spe...

This semester, the maintenance people bolted my bookcases to the wall. It's needed to happen for a long time. One of the bookcases, ...

It's supposed to be 99 degrees today here in Port-au-Prince. Everything is coated with dust, and the poinciana trees are in bloom. It...

Today we had our eighth grade graduation, and then sent the eighth graders home. (Actually I heard rumors they were all getting together at...

This time of year, I'm thinking a lot about remembering and perhaps even more about forgetting. My students are taking tests, so I'...

It's Haitian Mother's Day. My friend Beth posted this photo on Facebook. It was taken right after the earthquake in Haiti in Janu...

The flamboyant trees are in bloom here in Haiti, and I took this picture this week over the wall of the basketball court at school. I was t...

This week I listened to this program on a podcast. It's an interview with Sherry Turkle, who wrote Alone Together: Why We Expect More ...