I love talking with kids of all ages! ~ Maria Gianferrari Maria Gianferrari is a picture book reading/writing, tea-drinking, dog-loving,...

It is both an important acknowledgement and a horror that the International Olympic Committee created a Refugee Olympic Team in 2015 for...

It is amazing how much a simple action - like a smile, holding a door for someone, or letting them go ahead of you in the grocery line...

When I was younger my grandmother and I spent hours on the beach looking for interesting rocks, shells, and sand dollars. It's no wonder...

Poetry provides a wonderful vehicle to make inferences, determine themes, and cite textual evidence in complex, yet manageable texts. ~...

So, I'm shaking things up a bit this week. Good thing it's my blog. I'm going to do a combination interview/book review post on both...

Here's another of those promised, or was it threatened (?), double posts. So many great books are being released this Spring. This one is...

A world of grief and pain flowers bloom - even then - Kobayashi Issa Poetry can say so much with so few words. Many poets spend years...

I have a slightly different interview for you today. I am talking with Amy Losak, the daughter of the poet/author Sydell Rosenberg....

After interviewing Priscilla, I really looked forward to seeing where her head spun as she looked at the wires between her television and...