This Spring, I will be teaching in a fifth-grade classroom! For poetry month, I am challenging myself to write one poem each day on a different geographical location — where I have not visited or lived. Which means I will need to do some cursory research (search engines, be warned!), and thinking. Thirty countries in […]
Month: March 2011
Haiku on Wednesday
gentle, stately, behemoths oyster barges waltzing on the pearl-gray waters an ocean, a sound, an inlet away the cries of fam’lies mourning great losses always, after disaster a pause to reflect and then business as normal.
Not the end of the world
Nothing that has been upsetting or bothersome to me the last few years seems to be all that important, in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami this last week. I am so sad. I did contribute to the international Red Cross in the wake of the New Zealand earthquake. And I have contributed […]
Born this Way Blog
Saw a short video of the blog author on CNN today (video also posted on the blog), and wanted to post the link here as well. It is very important that people know they are not alone, that their unique qualities are celebrated. Who a person is, regardless of age, gender, orientation or favorite attire, […]
Happy Anniversary
To my darling Tom: Thank you for two decades of pretty interesting times!