A Year of Reading

Hemingway helped me launch Playing With Poetry by reminding me to PLAY with the Haikubes. He LOVES the sound they make. When I dumped th...

Surprises The first surprise-- on the logjam that crosses the river, a mink. Not a muskrat. A mink. In Ohio. The best sur...

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Nothing Gold after Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Nature's first green is gold or, in the case of that bush with its s...

For today's Climate Change Edition of Poetry Friday, I'm reposting a poem I wrote for my 2017 Poetry Month project featuring Malvin...

In the Middle of the Night: Poems from a Wide-Awake House by Laura Purdie Salas illustrated by Angela Matteson ...

The women who made me who I am      gave each other home perms      led Cub Scout dens and Brownie Scout troops      grew asparagus fo...

Our Not-So-Small-Sized Mystery A Small-Sized Mystery by Jane Hirshfield Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, ...

photo via Unsplash Helping My Mom Cook I let my hands go on an adventure with cooking, chopping away the evil monsters. My cook...

AJ recommends lots of books that we both know might wait years before I get a chance to read them. But when he slid this small trim siz...