“Tradition encourages us to think that those who are book smart are lacking in street smarts. We are inclined to think that even if [intelle...

Lots of old friends at this meeting -- but not as many new faces. I have no hard numbers to back this up, but like many reading conferences ...

I thought this test was a joke when I first heard about it -- but it is far from funny. Dr. Goodman has approved this article for sharing --...

Stories are the bridge between who we are and who we used to be. Listening to the other presenter's stories, I'm drawn to cross thos...

This is a happening place, students were active in a common area making little literacy bags to hold their books and their journals and penc...

Breakfast with Poets -- Brod Bagert and me. Many in the audience were more familiar with Brod than with me, so I did a little overview of ho...

This post is for all the people who have ever said: You get to travel, that must be so much fun! Monday I left Cleveland for Mobile via Hous...

Last night on Bill Mauer, he said that he didn’t think he should have to talk to women who were wearing a burqa, it is so fourteenth century...

I admire librarians for their self-motivation. Often working solo, they quietly keep the shelves current and in order so that the rest of us...

The day was sunny and 80 degrees, the smell of cut grass. At precisely 10:45AM, one week from the tragic shooting at the small Amish school ...

My word for the day. On pretty much of a whim, Michael and I just booked a trip to Croatia in December. We will be visiting Steven and Kathy...

I'm at the Cleveland Public Library, it is the color of cold, wet steel outside. Ample windows are letting in only a dusky light and the...

Quote from writer/educator Donald Graves: "Too much of my life is spent in routine activities: get up, shave, dress, stagger down for m...

Here's the sentence: "She was a woman to admire and to desire, but the message in her eye and her bearing was unmistakable: offend ...

I swear, they do it at night. I'm not sure who THEY are, but for sure THEY don't want to be confronted by those of us enjoying our f...

To the woman in the blue dress walking in front of the empty strip center store on Route 20 who did not tie back her auburn hair letting it ...

My hood

The neighbors in my hood had a celebratory potluck tonight. The developer, whose family in the past has performed surgery on this old villag...

My phone stopped taking a charge. I know this feeling, understand it in my core. When the sun is perky and I am too comfortable under the ...

I've been feeling depressed lately about the state of the world. News articles and television conspiring to remind us daily about the v...