First impressions are important. As an author, the good thing about making a trailer for your new book is that you get the opportunity to in...

If we're going to the beach, you have to put on shoes. I don't want to wear shoes. Here let me help you. I can't find my shoes. ...

Watch CBS News Videos Online The boy is right -- seems like everyone either loves or hates the president -- no middle ground. But unlike the...

Two fantastic schools in two weeks -- Central Elementary in Edgewater, MD and Garfield Middle School in Lakewood, OH. Today in Lakewood I me...

Maybe the sun was out that day. Or maybe Dennis Cox looked at me at lunch. Or maybe that was one of the 47 days I was dismissed early to h...

Here's what I know about football: Someone shouts out a number, another guy hikes the ball, and then everyone either makes a break for ...

It's that time of year when every kid, teacher, custodian and fraying folder starts crying RECESS. Summer break is breathing hot and hea...

Ever go looking for one image and find another? I've had that happen countless times with poetry -- I start out writing about one subje...

After the sixth grade assembly a boy came up to me and asked, "Why do poets always write about love? Never did ME any good." ...

Biking this morning around 9AM, we passed a young boy, maybe 9 years old, walking down the street presumably on his way to school. Late. N...

Lunch with students at Waynesville Middle School. I told them about a story I’d heard on the radio driving down – about the schools in New ...

I have trouble packing to go to Toledo. Tomorrow Michael (my partner in life and poetry) and I head to Bangkok, Vietnam and Sumatra. Here ...

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