Is artistic talent inborn or can we cultivate it?   I have always of an artist as one who envisions what wasn't there before and, ...

When Michael Salinger and I were teaching in Morocco, we were introduced to a new fashion trend.  Teen girls were wearing the shortest o...

I recently wrote on a friend's Facebook wall, joking about emotional displays in public, that I had thrown up while watching Bon...

  I received this email from a teacher I have corresponded with in Pakistan, who is looking to create the "the longest and most col...

The past three months we have all witnessed the horrible reports of the shooting at nearby Chardon High School, the shooting at the theater...

On Sunday Michael and I, along with 3 other Cleveland poets will be honored to read poems of our choosing at a Cleveland Orchestra Concert c...

Book smart = street dumb This thinking is ubiquitous in too many of our upper schools. Smart is stupid, dumb is good. To mark the depth of ...

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

This past weekend provided a luxury of reading time as we visited with our friends Sarah Willis and Ron Antonucci in the vicinity of Chautau...

Obama is the leader of this country, homegrown like my vegetables, and elected by a clear majority. He is not a foreign power or running for...

"Will this thread work with this fleece?" I asked the 50 something clerk standing confidently behind the counter at the fabric sto...

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...

The population of Cairo is 19 million at night and 23 million during the day -- it is a city on the move. We are half a world away from the...

Yesterday a big Yellow Freight delivery truck (way big) pulled up in front of the house and the nice delivery man wanted to drop off two pal...

What I want to do is blog about what a fab time I had at Granny Camp and visit with the Ohio Writing Project at Miami U (very cool), but fir...

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Enraged crowds rioted across Pakistan and hopes for democracy hung by a thread after Benazir Bhutto was gunned down...

Last night Michael and I were up at the mall (again?) and he remarked, "isn't it amazing how this season just gets people to go out...

Carolyn Bucey finished off her slimy opponent Bill Snow with a knock out punch of truth and we won. Not only that council seat, but two oth...