Everything you ever needed to know about relationships you can learn from picking raspberries. Don’t be fooled by all that greenery, there i...

"Keep the machine running." This is a quote given to me from Michael and to him from a veteran machinist. When Michael asked the o...

Fill your hat with water dump it on your head, watch the sunset fall in bed. Kick the horse to make it go, hike and sing, explore and show ...

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...

So far we have visited the Desert Museum and the Colossal Cave. We've gone horseback riding and written in our journals. We've sung ...

Ben arrives for Granny Camp. Next stop, Tucson. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Kid provided by Kelly & Brian Weist Transportatio...

Back in the day, when Scottie was two, he knew how to grip the bat, address the T, smack the ball, drop the bat and run in a circle. He had ...

Dreams take the day's events, twist and bend, turn and tumble with hopes, dreads, obsessions and skinny-eyed suspicions. Presto! Out com...

When the suitcases come down from the attic, when the bike comes out of the garage, when one of us goes searching for car keys or a water bo...

There are no words. So many notes, books, poems all offered with genuine, hopeless chagrin: There are no words . . . Still we seek to find t...

Screen staring is not writing. It is not research. It is reading every news report you do and mostly do not need to know (cute animal videos...

The haiku poet speaks sincerely into the mike, holds heart in clenched fist The Haiku emcee invites the poets to bow from waist in respect ...

Says it all about the end of the school year, eh? Wednesday and Thursday Michael and I hiked and wrote with the Bay Middle School sixth grad...

"It was my Granny who taught me to sew. . ." That's a line from a poem I wrote years ago watching Kelly and Katie grow up wit...

The kids at Lakeshore and Gateway Schools in Conneaut, OH were prepped and hoppin' ready for poetry when I arrived this week. One teach...

Today I visited a school and at the end of the assemblies the questions were regular, how old are you? how much money do you make? how old a...

Claire's Day is a reading celebration in Toledo that is held once a year in honor of a 10 year old girl who went to summer camp and neve...

Not a smart mouth, not unkind. Just a question from a third grader today at R.C. Waters Elementary in Oak Harbor, OH. The morning assemblies...

So many notes and calls -- meat platters, fruit baskets, plants, flowers and a tree. We can't thank everyone enough for all your caring ...

STEPHANIE LYN "STEPHIE" LUFKIN, age 7. First Grade Student at Normandy Elementary School, Bay Village. Precious princess and cheri...