A Year of Reading

photo via Unsplash Each day I thread the needle of my heart and stitch together my quilt-square students into a tapestry of joy and learning...

The Flipside Your fear stings like a fresh paper cut. The flipside is brave determination to never give up. The changes ar...

Loss is a Non-Negotiable Miracle The cold front came through last night scrubbing the sky of humidity polishing Orion, the Pleiades...

To the Daisy That Has Survived Even Though the Grounds Crew Mowed Down the School Land Lab Two Years Ago Bloom! No matter how low...

Time Is time an organized file brimming with figures and facts? Or is time a play in the theater with lines and scenes and acts? ...

My Teacher Mornings are rough sometimes. I fight with my mom, arrive at school in a shroud of scowl. Teacher expects me to write a...

Peony Poem an idea sudden, surprising like red peony shoots the first color in a spring garden a draft leafy, bushy too much gr...

image via unsplash Confronting Icy Water is Directly Linked to Revolution Standing at the edge, I brace myself for the harsh truth, ...

An unsolicited email showed up in my inbox. Rather than spam, it seemed like a message from the universe. Here are the big ideas: 5 Ins...

Photo by Mike Ratcliffe Advice There's pride -- (nothing wrong with pride) a warm sense of self-worth sitting quietly inside y...

WHY TAI CHI? Tai Chi is a deliberate dance, both solitary and in tandem. It is a chorus sung with body instead of voice. You a...

Mosaic Metaphors  M oments, memories, mementos O rganized optic chaos, gridlocked visual clutter S oundless soundtrack of days A rtisti...

Did I tell you about my students' National Poetry Month project? When they heard I was going to write a poem a day, one girl said, "...

Back in January, Father Goose (Charles Ghigna), introduced a new poetry form: the "If-You-Were" Poem. He explains the form in thi...

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso As I was t...