No rushing, no deadlines. The cats are out, the dogs are in. Summer is slowing down to turn the corner into fall. School is open, the pool i...

The book is at the printer. There are hardly better words an author can hear. It means all the work that the writer can do is done. Books st...

Outgoing suitcases are a study in organization. Socks in this pocket, folded jeans, t shirt rolls framed by shoes turned business side out. ...

I could never be a migrant. First of all, my intestines tend to over-dramatize ingestions of bad food. Second, after a couple of days of t...

"And some go both ways" to quote the scarecrow.

If an anti-semite is one who hates, disrespects, discriminates against Jews, what's the word for one who hates Muslims? We need a word f...

I entered the world of Slam poetry after some motivator told me that I couldn't, that it simply was not something that "middle-aged...

Four days of learning and fun in rural Wisconsin. No cheesy jokes about WI needed, it was just plain fun. Did some workshops, danced my fe...

THIS is why I am always on a diet. People treat me too well. Who knew that Minneapolis has such good Italian food? Who could say no? Not...

The heat is everywhere this week. In the sock drawer, the cabinet in the bathroom, seeping out from under the fridge and toasting my toes. ...

It's almost trite for a poet to have a garden, the seed being the original metaphor and all. I don't grow anything practical. I us...

Tshirts say: We put the fun back in Dysfunctional 

The problem with letting a blog go into a holding pattern for a while is that life doesn't have a hold button and so many astonishing th...

Perry, Georgia is about a 1.5 hour drive south from Atlanta. I've been to Perry before to visit schools and love the quaint downtown ar...

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." ...

It is rare that I visit a school and get to come home for lunch, but Memorial is right down the road from my house. I had a great time with ...

I drove home from a great visit to Perseus in Erie, PA today only to sit down to watch another expose about yet another teacher engaged in ...

Ajax (the special needs dog) is eating a pencil under my desk. I'm dressed for the gym but stalled here at the computer. I read the ne...

Let's say some school district, a big district, is putting together scripted lesson plans for the third grade, a program that is destine...

Goshen is in prairie country, flat and windswept. Tuesday morning dawned clear and cold -- extra cold. The reception at school however was...