My daughter and I have been reading the Odyssey together this summer,  and we finished it yesterday.  Just as the Iliad is mostly about all ...

Here are some books that cheer me up when I'm sad.  And here are some that Modern Mrs. Darcy recommends. What do you read when you...

Book #92 of this year was Beautiful Ruins , by Jess Walter, an entertaining novel about Hollywood and The Hotel Adequate View on a tiny Ita...

I love Jan Richardson's work, and she posted a beautiful poem this week.  It begins this way: Blessing When the World is Ending Look...

Friends are such a blessing, but missing them is sad. I guess that's all Emily Dickinson is saying in this poem. And I concur.  (Scrol...

I spent the day yesterday volunteering at a maternity center here in Port-au-Prince, where I live.  I came home to news of violence and deat...

Book #86 of 2016 (yes, I did skip #85, but you'll find it at the end of this post) was The Night Manager , by John le Carré.  I often f...

Photo Source: http://american-biography.blogspot.com/2011/02/henri-christophe-of-haiti-king-of-first.html Earlier this summe...

I recently read this article , which told me ten things I should know about War and Peace .  One of the ten things is that it isn't real...

I've been reading summer poems at Poetry Foundation , and finding many lovely ones.  I love this one for the intimate picture of a fathe...

One of my favorite parts about summer vacation is the time to read.  Since my last update, I have been reading constantly, and here's wh...

[love is more thicker than forget] e.e. cummings   love is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a w...

As we toured Sans-Souci Palace, the home of Henri Christophe, King of Haiti, my daughter quoted Shelley's poem, "Ozymandias....

Halfway through 2016, I've read as many books as I read all last year.  I've had plenty I wanted to escape from, and I ended my last...

I haven't posted on this blog in a while, but now that summer is here, I hope to change that.  I finished school, graded feverishly and ...

Here's the completed poem , along with an illustration.  For the fourth time, thirty writers have worked together to make a Progressive ...

Almost finished!

It's here.   And there's a title now, too!

Mary Lee wrote the next line!

The poem continues.