In the back of my mind I planned to end this week with a post about National Board Certification for Teaching (NBCT) and, afraid to jinx anything (so I didn’t begin writing), my achieving NBCT status. I began working toward NBCT with a 3-day Jump Start training in August of 2023,. August through December of that year, I signed up for three classes, poured through materials and created a binder of over 100 pages to guide my work, and began collecting student work. I spent the

I had a great time interviewing this insightful, generous, and talented singer-songwriter. After reading, you'll want to check out more from her. You can do that here: Jen’s link tree: https://linktr.ee/jenhawley and website: www.jenhawley.com Thanks for agreeing to this interview, Jen. I’m looking forward to getting to know you better. I’ve known you mainly as a great singer from Open Mics around MoCo. In researching for this interview, I’ve gotten to know you better as a ph

Luther Jett is a gifted poet, songwriter, educator, and thinker. He is also a wonderful human being and great friend. My poet interviews are among my favorite blog posts. I’ve been eager to add interviews of songwriters to my posts as well and, one of Luther’s many likable traits is that he often seems game for almost anything. So, here we go… Hi Luther. Thanks for agreeing to this interview. Although I've interviewed many poets and you are a poet, you are here as my first si

It’s ready for printing! I finished my final round of edits from proofs of my new poetry collection this week. Love Letters from Cuckold Creek  ( Cyberwit.net , 2025) evolved since initially compiled in 2024 — her name has changed, poems dropped and added, and the overall why shifted. Yet my original impetus strengthened as I drafted more pieces, periodically sending versions out to publishers. I’ll share a little bit about the themes in this collection, as well as what some