We met in Kampala to remember the cross. A series of readers read the story aloud in a series of accents. Gray Parrots flew overhead, their ...

  I was looking at an Antillean Mango in my yard on Delmas 83 in Port-au-Prince one day four years ago, right at the moment when the news ca...

Book #13 of the year was  Stone Blind , by Natalie Haynes. It's the story of Medusa, and it's weird and great.   Book #14 was Life...

Parker Palmer posted a poem this week that resonated with me and I'm going to share it today. I decided that it can do double duty for S...

I've been doing a writing project during Lent, using daily prompts, and today's word, Holy, made me think of this poem that I've...

I have a birthday coming up, which means that it's almost time to start the next year of my QWP, or Quinquagenarian Writing Project. I s...

I knew Naomi Shihab Nye would have something to say appropriate to these days, and I was right. I just found this poem she published in Dece...

Book #7 of 2024 was The Summer Place , by Jennifer Weiner. This may be the first Covid novel I've read, but it won't be the last. (...

  (Click on the photo to enlarge it. I took the screenshot here .)   Alcman was a Greek poet who wrote in the seventh century BC. This is a ...

Last Poetry Friday, as I mentioned in my post last week, was a holiday. I didn't really take the day off -- I worked almost all day -- b...

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...