Watch CBS News Videos Online The boy is right -- seems like everyone either loves or hates the president -- no middle ground. But unlike the...

Austinburg Elementary is old school. Literally. It is a very old school. Tall wooden windows, a gym with a real stage at one end, heavy wood...

Two fantastic schools in two weeks -- Central Elementary in Edgewater, MD and Garfield Middle School in Lakewood, OH. Today in Lakewood I me...

While trying to stay within the lines and not tearing the the pictures of baby Moses in the weeds with my crayon in Sunday school, I remembe...

This past weekend provided a luxury of reading time as we visited with our friends Sarah Willis and Ron Antonucci in the vicinity of Chautau...

Obama is the leader of this country, homegrown like my vegetables, and elected by a clear majority. He is not a foreign power or running for...

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...