A Year of Reading

Let's Dance! by Valerie Bolling illustrated by Maine Diaz Boyds Mills Press, March 2020 review copy provided by the publisher ...

via Unsplash "Who will stop the people who want to cheat?"   -- Tabatha Yeatts I joined Tabatha in writing Ele...

Via Unsplash Valentine Letter From Shadiya I Love you so much I ned you so much Miss Hahn I nau you is so tieard because I see yo...

Kent State by Deborah Wiles Scholastic, April 21, 2020 review copy provided by the publisher This is an amazing book that belongs i...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860 The Socialist and the Suffragist by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Said the Socialist to ...

Just a quick post this week to invite you to this webinar . You do not have to be a member of NCTE to take part! Join the National Coun...

foggy view of the sheep farm by our school It was foggy yesterday. On my early morning walk, I considered ways to describe fog. Non...

This  gapingvoid  graphic. This podcast review of Auld Lang Syne by John Green, for all the AKR fans out there. (Grab a hankie befor...

THANKS by W.S. Merwin This poem starts out easy, but it gets complicated real quick. Kind of like life. In her commentary, Tracy K. Sm...

I found this great article that reminded me about the power of short writing . SHORT writing seemed like just the thing for this past SHORT...