Just over a month ago, Tabatha suggested that we should have a Naomi Shihab Nye day on Poetry Friday. A few days later, I read that Naomi S...

We've been climbing in seventh grade. Metaphorically, as we scaled the heights of the school year, but also literarily, as we ended the ...

Heavy Summer Rain Jane Kenyon   The grasses in the field have toppled, and in places it seems that a large, now absent, animal ...

We are testing at school this week, and I've finished all my grading and am not proctoring.  I left my Kindle at home by mistake, and ...

This week I read the story about Patroclus getting killed with my eighth graders. I also read this poem published in 2019, and its reference...

I don't know if you, Gentle Reader, have noticed, but I try to write positive things about my adopted country of Haiti. There is so much...

Our host for today, Carol , has asked us to write about the Spirit of Spring. In the traditional Christian church calendar (the western ...

April is National Poetry Month, so this year, as in the past, I learned a lot about poetry, and was introduced to many new-to-me poets and p...

Poems definitely add value to my life, but I have to say that the thirty days of National Poetry Month always wear me out. This year was no ...

I've been reading poems about the natural world with my eighth graders this month. Here are two bird poems I shared with them. Bird-Un...

This link from Linda's TeacherDance blog has been open on my desktop for a while. Linda is constantly creative and full of teaching ide...

This link from Heidi's Juicy Little Universe has been open on my desktop for a while.  She shares a Jane Hirshfield poem first about pe...

This month for National Poetry Month, I have been sharing links that are already open on my desktop. Today's post comes more from what...

Last Poetry Friday Glenda Funk posted some poems about Notre Dame, one by Fleda Brown and one by herself. I've been thinking I want to w...

This poem by Louise Glück has been on my desktop for a while. It's called "A Summer Garden," and it begins with finding a phot...

Today I've been blogging 13 years. When I started blogging I had already read somewhere that blogs were "over," and certainly ...

Book #36 of 2019 was a devotional by Christine Harms called In the Face of Injustice . For thirty days, there's a daily Bible reading, ...

This link hasn't been on my desktop for very long; Karen Edmisten posted it at the beginning of National Poetry Month this year. La...

I didn't have anything open on my desktop appropriate for Easter, so in a conversation with my daughter and one of her roommates on Frid...

This link, an article from The Atlantic called "Making Perfume from the Rain" , has been open on my desktop for a while now, and i...