A Year of Reading

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things—   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;    For ...

Photo via Unsplash I've received three  (edited to add one more) thoughtful (thought-full) poetry gifts in the past week. 1. I w...

My class was lucky enough today to visit with Irene Latham and Charles Waters via Zoom! What a generous gift of time for Irene and ...

(This post is the back history I promised in my Poetry Friday post about Irene Latham's and Charles Waters' book, Can I Touch Your H...

We finished reading aloud Can I Touch Your Hair? yesterday. It was not the first book I've read aloud this year that gave us the op...

I don't give two hoots about college football, but I've endured decades of silliness spawned by this rivalry. Here's my ta...

It's that time again. Six months have passed since last we queued up to host the Poetry Friday roundups. If you'd like to host...

Photo via Unsplash Every two weeks we change desks. This limits disorganization to a short cycle, and for all the good it does (I curre...

Rise and Fall Fall takes her leave, pelts down grainy snow, swirls the last of the leaves with darkness and cold. Rising at the b...

The Charlotte Huck Award ® was established in 2014 to promote and recognize excellence in the writing of fiction for children. In particul...