For the past month, I have been consumed by poetry. Constantly, I am thinking about it, writing with words that rhyme or follow a cadence in my head. Poetry. The imaginative craft of writing where words create images and emotions and depth of life. And, while I am grateful, it has been such an odd…
Today, on Poetry Friday, I want to celebrate the poet Jack Prelutsky. I own several of his holiday poem books, gifted to me by my mom who used them for years in her third grade classroom. Subsequently, I used them for years for my third grade writer’s circle. Jack Jack Prelutsky is an American born…
It’s been a slow day. I’ve had no get up and go, no motivation, no energy. It happens. I did manage to do one load of laundry, pull some zinnias and petunias our of our garden beds that line the driveway. But, by the time I did that it was almost 3 p.m.. This morning,…
Some of my favorite types of books are those that involve time travel. It’s always been enjoyable for me to read stories that involve characters who move through time. I think this fondness started with reading Wrinkle in Time when I was in grade school in the early 1970s. The whole idea of children traveling,…
My son joined Audible with his email and my credit card. I knew about this of course, but it was over a year ago. Since then, the credits accumulated. He, a college student at the time, did not read much for pleasure. And, I – well, I forgot about it, until recently. A couple of…
Priorities Recently, my writing has taken more of a priority for me and I have been working on it outside of writing my blog. If you read my blog regularly, you might notice that my posts are later in the day. You also might notice my words might not have the conviction or intensity you…
During this phase of social distancing and avoiding other humans so as to help flatten the curve of the COVID-19 virus spread, I determined that it is the time to perhaps start writing for a different purpose. After writing a daily blog for three years, and gaining a modest readership, I would like to add…
Since it is poetry Friday I started to think about what I was going to write about today. I had children’s poetry books I got out of the library last week and could review one of those. I did really liked “The Free and the Brave: A Collection of poems about the United States” (2004). The…
I think that I’ve told this story before, but for those who missed it, I’ll repeat it since it’s short. One day, many years ago, a librarian at our small public librarian told me she was always interested to see what I checked out – that I had a varied and interesting taste in books….
My son was the Cat – The Cat in the Hat! This shy timid boy, sang and danced the stage for musical theater became his bag. Thing One and Thing Two turned out to be cool, friends of son three who was never a fool. To be in a musical for all to see, springing…