There's nothing poetical about getting your feet cut -- voluntarily. The pain really has to be too much before you present yourself at ...

Sometimes writing by assignment can bring some surprising results, This morning Michael led the teachers in his memoir activity. In my brai...

It happened again. This time a young woman. College aged. She came up to me after our recent poetry reading at Bowling Green University Fire...

The next move, Lisa suggests, will help to quiet the monkey mind. My monkey mind immediately scratches behind my ear, looking for possible ...

When librarian Joyce Miller contacted us about dishing up some poetry at the middle school in Hanoi for April Fool's Day she was not jus...

How does the tourist cross the road? Or. Would you step into this traffic? Hanoi! Developing. On the move. New friends. The Dragon Hotel is ...

If the above photo doesn't look like an attendee at a teacher's conference, prepare to expand your vision. EARCOS= East Asian Region...

All the commotion, (laundry, packing, emails, phone calls, house sitters, doggie day care and a last minute trip to buy travel sized toothpa...

How many ways can you conjugate green? This is a view from our porch at Alam Sari Keliki. What I can't show is the soft sounds of woode...

The thing about us Americans is that we just plain need to get out more. Seriously. While we are in Hong Kong riding spotless subways, do...

To paraphrase that NPR philosopher Garrison Keillor: The Canadian International School of Hong Kong is a place where the faculty is bright,...

It wasn't on the calendar in advance. No prior knowledge on my part. But as the weather cooled and the travel escalated, I kind of withd...

Is it true that the wisemen brought pumpkins to honor the infant? Is that the Holy Ghost dressed up as a scarecrow for Halloween? OR Does th...

To the Young Poet Standing “Failure drives a Nissan Cube.” Your opening line is succinct. Neither made up in a slather of cosmetic adjective...

While reading the news online this morning, I found a cache of poems allegedly about the end of daylight savings time. (click here) I'm...

Once upon a time in the long long ago, parents were the gatekeepers of knowledge for kids. Sharp knives and matches were dispensed to kids o...

Michael found this and I am pasting it right in here because we are THIS excited about our book club discussion about our new book on the En...

I took this picture with my cellphone about a week ago beside the driveway. It was the first week of October and this stubborn little dande...