Last weekend we visited Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is beautiful and the staff is knowledgeable. My favorite d...

Sunflakes by Frank Asch If sunlight fell like snowflakes, gleaming yellow and so bright, we could build a sunman, we could have a sunb...

Welcome to July's Spiritual Journey Thursday. Please leave your links in the comments and I will round them up. We skipped the first Thu...

This week my husband and I watched a funeral on Facebook Live, a funeral for a married couple, missionaries both in their very early twentie...

Our topic for SJT (Spiritual Journey Thursday) for June is Looking Back, Looking Forward. On Thursday you'll be able to see the roundup ...

It's Saturday morning here in Uganda, but it's still Friday some places, so here's my Poetry Friday contribution. If You Know, Y...

Book #27 of 2024 was The Vacationers , by Emma Straub. I thought this was entertaining. Book #28 was The Lazy Genius Way , by Kendra Adach...

Welcome to today's Poetry Friday roundup! Please leave your links in the comments and I will round them up the old-fashioned way. I have...

There's no mystery about why these tabs are open on my desktop: they're bird poems! (I'm spring-cleaning open tabs this NPM, try...

During NPM this year, I'm spring-cleaning my desktop, and getting rid of tabs that have been open too long. I found two poems about grie...

This  "Ode to Teachers," by Pat Mora , has been open on my desktop for a while. It starts like this:   I remember the first day,...

I've been posting somewhat less than daily during this National Poetry Month, doing some spring-cleaning of poetic links that are open o...

Book #21 of the year was Emily P. Freeman's latest book, How to Walk Into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away...

This morning (Thursday) I'm going back to work after an Easter break that got extended an extra day by Eid being a day later than the ca...

Today I'd like to share a Jim Daniels poem that has been open on my desktop for a long while. (That's what I'm doing this NPM: s...

I'm not sure how long this poem has been open on my desktop. It was posted on the Writer's Almanac in 2008, but I'm sure I haven...

  I've participated in the Progressive Poem every year starting with the first one in 2012. I was thinking that this year was my earlies...

We went away for a few days and although I had scheduled some posts for while I was gone, I missed this month's SJT (Spiritual Journey T...

I've had the Billy Collins poem "Birds of America" open on my desktop for a while. (During NPM I'm spring-cleaning tabs th...

Sarah Kay's poem "Jakarta, January" was very relatable to me when I first read it, I don't know when, and kept it open on ...