I share a song I wrote in celebration of, and worry for, my Girl. I imagine most Moms & Dads can relate. There were a few years there...

I have read some magnificent poetry collections this month! And in my last post, I promised to return with some mini-reviews. So here...

As my students have made clear to me, to say you’re “cool with the kids” is not cool, but they laugh, which is heartening. I have two Gen...

In I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir (Atmosphere Press, 2022), Fran Abrams plays her life back at fast pace and it’s quite a...

Having banked a dozen or so songs, Steve and I buckled down to record four last month on a little four track digital recorder. We sent...

Rocker, singer-songwriter, musician, Thomas Anderson, composes accessible, thoughtful songs that range from wistful and haunting to...

What do you want for Christmas? “Just a smile,” my Dad would always answer. I knew he meant it and I always made good on the ask. Now,...

Before posting these mini-reviews, I took some time to post excerpts on Amazon and Goodreads, depending on where I found the collections....

En’s over a month into his first year of high school and is making an effort to stay on top of all the work in all their classes. It’s a...

Jona Colson’s Said Through Glass poetry collection (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2018) transports one to the internal life of...

I’m resting my fingers and voice after a long practice session, although typing makes the fingertips of my left hand sore; they’ve had a...

Living with two teens in the thick of pop culture and internet on-goings, I vaguely follow Cancel Culture. Some incidents my kids share...

Jay Hall Carpenter’s Model Home (2021) is an astounding collection of poems on a number of levels. Jay writes each poem with beautiful...

With pizza enjoyed, ice cream cake shared, and gifts opened, En’s 14th Birthday Party comes to a close and with that our 2022 Birthday...

My first love was Music. I grew up on the likes of Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, and Elvis. Between fights with my...

DiVerse Poetry Reading Series has been a staple for me, both in my social and internal life. I missed surprisingly little through...

I spent some evenings this week with “No Barking in the Hallways: Poems from the Classroom,” by Ann Bracken (New Academia Publishing,...

I return to some poems again and again. I need to share them with friends. I need to read them aloud or recite them to myself in mind....

I do love these minor holidays — Valentine’s, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s — days in which a little festive goes a long way with no great...

High on the hill, beneath a fern sky of speckled spores there is a place I long to describe in a language I do not know. Reads the first...