When I saw this month's subject, "Love is...," I thought of two poems, and I'll share them below. Both are poems I've ...

Recently a friend asked me for a list of book recommendations. She specified: "novels or memoirs focusing on the experience of immigrat...

It's early Friday afternoon in Uganda. It's a holiday here (Liberation Day), but I'm hard at work because we just got a new sche...

Happy Poetry Friday! You can see today's roundup here .   I found this wonderful poem by Patricia Clark  here , and then I wrote my own ...

Book #1 of 2024 was River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile , by Candice Millard. I live ...

It's Friday, and you know what that means! You can find today's Poetry Friday roundup here . Tracey Kiff-Judson, our host, has done ...

Since I started this blog in 2006, I've never posted so little as I did in 2023, and fully half of the posts of the year were in Octob...

The last two books I finished in 2023 were book #90 , Savor , by Shauna Niequist, and book #91 , You Are the Beloved , by Henri Nouwen. Here...

Book #84 of the year was Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer , by C.S. Lewis. I'd read this several times before, and when I wanted t...

I shared Mark Doty's poem twice before on this blog, once in 2011 and once in 2014 . It seems perfect for this last day of school until...

Book #78 of the year was Daisy Jones and the Six , by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This is a completely absorbing story, told in the format of an o...

Welcome, welcome! I'm so happy to have you here in my little corner of the Web. This post goes live on Thanksgiving Day, and so I'm ...

I'm hosting next week! My husband and I are hosting Thanksgiving at our house on Saturday (this isn't a local holiday, and Thursday ...

Book #74 of the year was Cassandra in Reverse , by Holly Smale. This book wasn't what I thought it was going to be, and it kept on surp...

It's not Poetry Friday -- more like Poetry Saturday -- here in Uganda. (Here's yesterday's roundup. ) I'm taking a break fro...

Here are all the Birdtober posts from 2023! I'm also including links to my Birdtober content from 2021 and 2022. I've hardly written...

Source: eBird.com The Spotted Owl is best known by non-birding people as the poster child for environmentalist excesses. In the eighties and...

  Source: eBird.com Green, rust, and orange warrior speeds back and forth, guards territory   Here   are some other hummingbird poems from ...

For last year's Artist's Choice, I wrote about the Shoebill , but mentioned I had considered the Hadada Ibis, whose call is a big pa...

Book #67 of 2023 was The Trackers , by Charles Frazier. I will always read whatever Frazier writes, and I have reviewed some of his other b...