What'd he say? What'd he say? We were in the student center, gathered around a black and white television, a jumble of summer school...

How Does Your Garden Grow? It stretches, grabbing air, the fence, the stakes set for climbing. Green tomato shoots, a laughter of l...

"Will this thread work with this fleece?" I asked the 50 something clerk standing confidently behind the counter at the fabric sto...

It is May, isn't it? Isn't it? May is a bit hard to reconcile with forty degree winds off Lake Erie and frozen fingertips. When we w...

Here we go. This is the big weekend. Last count, over 150 people will be participating in the Cleveland Marathon as part of Team Stephanie t...

Long about the time of year that only the most well-seasoned, irrationally hopeful Clevelander could identify as early spring -- when grayi...

Okay, this is exciting! More than Friends is featured in Scholastic's Scope Magazine for the month of February. Since I received the m...

Maybe the sun was out that day. Or maybe Dennis Cox looked at me at lunch. Or maybe that was one of the 47 days I was dismissed early to h...

Leave it to the first grade to sum it all up. People write books about the hows, whats, and whys of poetry. I know. I have. But here the...

Teachers may indeed sometimes sing the blues, but when they are accompanied and led by teacher/musician Ted DeMille, the songs are bound to ...

Thirty nine and sunny in Cleveland in January after how many days below freezing (?) is beautifully balmy. We were outside soaking up the vi...

Big assembly on Friday: Grades 3-8. When Principal Milissa Dachisen showed me the schedule week before last (had I agreed to that? Had I (ga...

Oh, yeah.  The world is exploding, the stock market is sending out depth charges, and I'm going to be HOW old in 2009?  Right. THIS is t...

The publishing world is in scale down mode, near to lockdown. Editors and production people are loosing their jobs and major players are not...

Out of the mouths of babes. Sara Kelly has the typical repertoire of songs for a two year old: Twinkle Twinkle, a dozen Wiggles tunes, the P...

In Scotty's Egypt, there is a fire station, a hotel, a factory where people work, a garage and a sea food restaurant. The hotel has a ...

In Egypt the hieroglyphics are like, everywhere. I mean the Ancient Egyptians had a lot to say. After someone stumbled on the Rosetta Stone,...