Airline logic makes no sense. Beside the absurdity that a ticket from Cleveland to Buffalo costs twice the price of a ticket to London, it...

The Las Vegas airport assaults the senses immediately. Ringing of the slots and flashing neon, soaring movie screens advertising shows, the...

The end of an era – not for Lexington, but for me. Almost. The second to the last Janet Allen Literacy Institute with a team of folks I’ve...

The past two weeks have flown by faster than this airplane since vacation. Working in the backyard, completing a book proposal, trying lose...

Mentor is billed as the Rose Capital of the world, named well before the economies of horticulture dictated that it is cheaper to raise rose...

What's with this word "counter-intuitive"? All of a sudden, it's all over the place. Apply it to Iraq, the schools, the ...

Eight (was it nine?) hours, multiple traffic jams and pit stops later we pull up to our cottages on Oak Island, NC. Four the past 3 years w...

Tidepools are for splashing. 

Two tired, traveling road poets, one nursing mom of three little ones under 5 (tired by definition), three little ones under 5, one teacher ...

Living in the house we have Hector, the rat terrier who would roll over in submission for a butterfly, Spike the cat who is all white, deaf ...

Saudi poet and novelist Ali al-Dimeeni, who has already been in jail for a year, was sentenced on May 15 to nine years in prison for sowing ...

Brian is in the Secret Service, part of the Presidential Detail Emergency Response Team 

I have told many students and teachers about my son-in-law Brian and how he has to write as part of his job. Often kids (teachers too) dism...

Once a year outlaws gather in the capital -- black leather on harleys, V8s on two wheels roaring down Constitution Avenue to commemorate tho...

Max and me at the Vietnam War memorial wall. 

“Listen to the Mockingbird” is a song I remember singing in grade school forty years ago growing up in Michigan, not a mockingbird travel de...

flowers are for picking 

Like a weekend at home with Stephanie and Scottie. Katie, their mom lent them to me for Friday night. We went swimming (indoors, it's ...

Truism: Leather sofas make your hair stand up. 

This is a big, old school in Warren, OH scheduled for rennovation. It will be cool for the kids to get a new building, but the antique love...