Claremont has been at the unfortunate center of our state’s education funding debate for decades, and I knew the school could use the help – so I was very happy when we were able to pull everything together. The kids at the school seemed pretty happy, too! The reason I mention this ...
What’s being rented here will improve your dream’s interpretive value. For example, renting a car indicates that you may have a tendency to shuffle responsibility or run with other people’s ideas instead of developing your own. Wanting creature comforts without having to exert a l...
For a first-time effort, I told him he did excellent. (And as runner-up, if for some reason his friend who won cannot attend the state regional semi-finals, he’ll be the one going to represent his school.) When I told Nikki how he’d done, she was very happy for him, as you...
The reason I get nervous when I don’t see really concrete information is that I just removed a father for George Sr. The 1st Earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, was attached to his profile earlier this year (2024). Earls have pretty good family trees and lots of records, and Thomas Bruce h...
The reason I get nervous when I don’t see really concrete information is that I just removed a father for George Sr. The 1st Earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, was attached to his profile earlier this year (2024). Earls have pretty good family trees and lots of records, and Thomas Bruce ...
It was just a few weeks later that I went to the journal’s website and all references to this particular issue were removed, and even the contact person’s name was nowhere to be found.Sigh.Oh, well…no reason to let the poem go unread, right?
It’s reactions like this that make an author’s day! And not just because she’s talking about how much she likes it – the fact is, she likes it for the very reason I wrote it. To empower young people to realize they can make a difference now!
For some reason I struggled most over the skunk poem, the last stanza in particular, even though the poem was patterned after a similar scene I witnessed one night driving home. I tried repeatedly to find a strong ending. At last it came out: “the street is/never empty.” By contrast...
I don’t know if I received it because yesterday was Poetry in Your Pocket Day or if it was a National Poetry Month school project – but the postcard indicated it was part of the Silver Star Poetry Project – so whatever the reason, I’m glad I received it! The poem is quite good...
Unaware of my transgression and oblivious to the reason for her outcry, I came in and asked – in an admittedly muted tone –“errr…what’s the matter, Honey?” My jaw dropped when the love of my life held up the papers and shook them in front of my face. ...