Discussions–(All the grands) As I went about my day with the grands, I would point out words to the grandsons that started with short vowels and have them repeat the word and isolate the vowel sounds. For example, as I gave each grand a bowl of applesauce for a snack, we would disc...
The majority of the poems came spontaneously, in the order that I posted them, during the Fall of 2002, Winter and Spring of 2023 during periods that I spent with her, her move to assisted living in Chicago, our our final visit up to Easter. I did very little editing, other than corr...
The child, looked at the pencil curiously, but could not see anything special. “But . . . it is exactly the same as every other pencil I saw in my life”. “It is all in the way you look at things. There are five qualities in that pencil that, if you will be able to maintain...