Small Celebrations of Gardening, Revisiting a Post from 2007

In 2007, this was how I started a blog post in April about gardening. "I return to gardening year after year because of the small celebrations e…

Near the Window

When I was young I always enjoyed it when my mother read poetry to me before I went to sleep. I also enjoyed it when teachers read poems aloud in cla…

Saving The Only Life I Could Save

I love that there is a national focus on poetry each year in April. I love teaching students to read, apppreciate, and write poetry, I love immersin…