A Year of Reading

photo via Unsplash It's the Poetry Sisters' last challenge for 2020: to write to the theme of "Wish I'd Been There," o...

Credit for photo Sand Creek Cottonwoods At first the shade of the gnarled cottonwoods lining the dry creek bed is a relief....

Over the past several weeks, I have found myself doing a lot of reflection trying to get this online teaching right.  I keep meaning to...

The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing has come and gone, but these books need a belated spotlight. Moonshot: The Flight of Ap...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Found Animals Foundation CRICKET, ON KITCHEN FLOOR, ENTERS HISTORY by Robert Penn Warren History, ...

Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson HMH Books for Young Readers, 2017 review copy provided by the publisher This was ...

Soldier Song: A True Story of the Civil War by Debbie Levy illustrated by Gilbert Ford Disney Hyperion, 2017 review copy provided by...

Stand Up and Sing! Peter Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice by Susanna Reich illustrated by Adam Gustavson Bloomsbury, 2017 ...

For the next half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. Along with all of ...

For the next half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. Through her music,...

For the next half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. Another unifying t...

For the next half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. One of the stronge...

For the second half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. One of the stro...

For the second half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. One of the strong...

For the second half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. One of the stron...

For the second half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. One of the str...

What is Feminism? Some women have the luxury of joining a cause. Fighting for equal rights and equal pay. Finding their voices,...

Not a Joke Isn’t it funny (not a joke no humor no puns) Isn’t it funny how war creates a necessity that strips away all the lab...

“...it was while doing graduate work in English there (University of California Berkeley) that she did some student teaching. She use...

Choices Even the right man Must wait for the right time Because mother is right That “career first” is the right path. But when you'...