I love this poem by Marcus Jackson because it brings back my childhood in a powerful way. I remember mixing up the Tupperware pitcher of K...

I kept a file of things I was learning this summer; mostly it's links to articles I read and thought were good, or at least thought-prov...

Today for Poetry Friday we are honoring the life of Lee Bennett Hopkins, a champion of poetry who died on August 8th . Hopkins produced over...

This poem seems appropriate for the first full week of school. It's gone well, but it's been exhausting, and that's even with Th...

I had my thirtieth college reunion this summer, and it surprised me to find that all of us - in our fifties, an age twenty-two year old me w...

Book #62 of 2019 was Michelle Obama's book Becoming . I also got to participate in a very fun discussion group about the book - unfortun...

We're traveling again this week on Poetry Friday, but this time I got my act together enough ahead of time to write a post. I found th...

A few years ago I got this fortune in a fortune cookie: "Change is not merely necessary to life. It is life." Everything change...

Today we traveled, and I never got to writing a Poetry Friday post. That's the first time in many months that I've missed! Fortunate...

The news this summer is horrid and the world seems to be falling apart more each day, but there are still wonderful people around and gre...

On July 2nd the daily poem from Poets.org (The Academy of American Poets) was a sonnet called "While Waiting for the Bus," by Kha...

So here we are already, halfway through the summer. Soon the back-to-school anxiety dreams will start again, and it won't be long at all...

I decided to participate in two Summer Poetry Swaps this year, out of the five that Tabatha organized. When you sign up, Tabatha sends you ...

As a Facebook friend put it, "This has been the Aprilest June ever." I'm visiting my parents in the US, and it has been rainin...

I've been gearing up for days to write a poem, and it still hasn't happened, but a friend posted these Wendell Berry lines on Facebo...

Book #51 of the year was The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and M...

Since last Poetry Friday I have traveled to a different planet; it's impossible to believe that the United States and Haiti are in the s...

Today's host Ramona asked us to write about connection. Connection is very important to me; I value my friends and family and wish for ...

I started last year's "What I Learned in May" post by writing, "I don't think people learn much in May, at least not ...

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...