Some years ago at this time of year, I posted a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and received some admonition about choosing it. Those criticisms were from people who misinterpreted the poem at face value and thought the poet was a racist. He was, in fact, an abolitionist who put his views into poetry. The…
Hello, Poets! This week’s Poetry Friday Round-Up is here on The Apples In My Orchard. If you want to know what Poetry Friday is check out this explanation by Renee M. La Tulippe. Thanks for participating! I’ll try to keep my post short but bring you up to date on my story about caring for…
Happy Poetry Friday! Our host for this week’s round-up is Tanita on her blog, Fiction, instead of Lies. For links to more poetry, be sure to visit her page. Many of you know I’ve been staying with my Dad in his home in Brockport New York for the last two-plus weeks. Last week, while I…
This week has been stressful once again. We’ve been in New York since last Thursday the 14th. My Dad was admitted to the hospital on the 13th after seeing his oncology doctor in her office. My sister was with him and drove him to the ER. By nine that night, he had a hospital bed…
Hello Poetry Friday Friends! Fall is zipping right along, isn’t it? I last posted to this blog on October 4th. Since then we’ve made a trip to New York to see my Dad (Arriving on the 2nd and staying until the 13th. We also got to see my sister, sister-in-law, and several of my husband’s…
It’s Poetry Friday and crazy to think that our Ireland trip was almost a month ago already. If you want to know what Poetry Friday is check out this explanation by children’s author and poet Rene La Tullippe. I’ve started to write some poems about our experience there – one focused on The Burren landscape,…
It’s been a few weeks since I participated in Poetry Friday. Mostly, that’s because we’ve been getting ready for a vacation and then traveling. Where did we go? We spent two weeks in Ireland! Our trip was in three parts: The trip came about last spring when I was planning for us to go to…
Hello, again! It’s already Friday! I hope you’ve all had a good week. My week has held some ups and downs or highs and lows as our Pastor used to say to our confirmands. And as a result, I feel kind of funky. Hold on to that word…I’ll get back to it later in this…
Wow! The end of July and the beginning of August have been busy. We had lots of visitors in July. Two different couples came up for two different weekends mid-month and before that, our boys were here for the Fourth of July holiday. Near the end of the month, we hopped in the car with…
Although I do buy books regularly, I am also a frequent visitor to the library. At the end of June, I borrowed a stack of books from our tiny local library branch. I was in search of a few classics to offer to read along with my overseas tutee. There, I came up short. Her…