This is a question that has been haunting me. The attitude seems to start around middle school but it projects itself into the political ar...

A week at Westerly -- this is the elementary school both my daughters attended. I was lucky enough to spend the week there doing writing wo...

Westerly's Poetry Jam 

Mrs. Woodburn and some half cracked poet with her eyes closed. 

Poems from State College 

Driving through Pennsylvania in the twilight of October is nothing if not a colorful experience! That drive was only surpassed by the fun I ...

State College Poets (a few among many) 

Once in a while a student question just sticks with me -- usually the ones I don't have answers for. Last Friday (now Sunday) following...

And even though today started before 6AM and the game is in extra innings after 11PM, even though the school day ended with a last period as...

I’ve seen the Discovery specials on salmon, how they leap dramatically up waterfalls to get upstream. What they don’t show you on TV is the ...

I once received directions to a school in southern Ohio that read: Take the interstate to the state route, turn onto the county road, when y...

Thunderbird Falls Friday we went out fishing. Let me clarify that. Michael fished at Ship Creek and I napped in the car. After a few hour...

And it ended with a poem The Janet Allen Literacy Institutes, so much a part of my life for the last nine years, are now officially over. I...

Friday, the last day. Debbi and I cruise some neighborhoods to look for Gran’s trailer park and the high school where Hector and Hannah go ...

My picture of the wall didn't turn out -- found this one on the internet. It is 14 feet tall, very ugly rusted metal. The crosses comm...

trash hidden in a nest under a mesquite tree in the national park 

Debbi McCullough's dolls commemorating migrant deaths in the desert 

Today Hannah went to court to support two Samaritans who were recently arrested for assisting 3 immigrant travelers who they found in the de...

Ed leads us on a path used by migrants to cross the AZ desert and mountains 

Arizona border home with razor wire around it.