A Year of Reading

This is a repost from 2008. My brother and I just spent three days going through the last of the boxes of Mom and Family back home in...

I picked up a few poetry toys at nErDCampMI last week. With Instant Poetry , poetry forms meet multiple choice. You might want to try ...

Journal Sparks helped me with my poems for this week. I used bits and pieces of ideas from the book. First, I made some watercolor boxe...

Before After Detail Before After Detail The Choice is Yours There will always be fences there will always ...

MAKERSPACE FUN Build Your Own Theme Park by Liz Lunney Andrews McMeel Publishing, June 2019 I can't tell you how badl...

The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane illustrated by Jackie Morris I saw this book in Maria Popova's Brain Pickings newslette...

Over the years, we've written about/reviewed  lots of graphic novels  here at A Year of Reading. When the Cybils were brand new, I chos...

Last week, Mary Lee and I attended the Highlights Foundation Building Cultural Competency Symposium.  It was an incredible 3 days and I c...

Photo credit: Karen Kuehn Hooray for our new Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo , a registered member of the Mvskoke Creek Nation! She is our fi...

Franki and I spent an amazing weekend at the Highlights Foundation  at the Building Cultural Competency Symposium. The required reading ...