I've never signed up for any of Tabatha's poem swaps before, mostly because I was very intimidated by what I saw of them on peopl...

Vacation by Rita Dove I love the hour before takeoff, that stretch of no time, no home but the gray vinyl seats linked like unfolding ...

Book #46 of 2018 was The One and Only Ivan , by Katherine Applegate.  This is a middle grade novel about Ivan, a gorilla who lives in a low...

Recently I heard a poet on a podcast say that he never calls himself a poet. He said a poet is what he wants to be more than anything, but h...

In 2012, I posted the Wislawa Szymborska poem "The Joy of Writing."   Here's the beginning of it: THE JOY OF WRITING Why doe...

Doraine is hosting Spiritual Journey First Thursday this month, and she's asked us to reflect on the year so far, since we're now o...

Today I am honored to host the third stop on Margaret Simon's Blog Tour for her charming new book Bayou Song: Creative Explorations of ...

I've been opening our school library once a week for the summer, since we don't have public libraries where we live, and I don't...

I've been in a bit of a reading slump lately, but here are the books I've finished since my last reading update. Book #40 of the ...

Rembrandt's Late Self-Portraits by Elizabeth Jennings You are confronted with yourself. Each year The pouches fill, the skin is ugli...

The beginning of the summer is the season of goodbyes. I should say it is one of the seasons of goodbyes, because there are goodbyes all ye...

This month our host, Margaret , has invited us to reflect on summer for our Spiritual Journey First Thursday. (In January the topic was our ...