The daughter has been taking a Poetry for one of her Extended Learning Opportunity (ELO) classes. The quarter culminates in a Poetry Cafe where the students read some of their…
Did I read or “review” anything in February? this was my thought last night, between trying to decipher the political and economic motivations of America 1800-1844 and testing out dynamic…
Kailana over at “The Written World” is participating in a Poetry: Read More/Blog More monthly event. This sounds like a good event, but this post is more about stealing the…
If you are going to check out this manga series by Urasawa x Tezuka from your local library, please be sure they have all 8…As it is, I need to…
Stitches It has been a while since I highlighted an illustrator and that is just what I am going to do. Do you follow “7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast?” I…
I am writing about this today for my Dance, Gender, and Culture assignment that is due today. Can you tell it was directed by a woman (Lauri Faggioni) and choreographed…
Do you ever have the urge to write an author and transcriptionally hug and kiss them because of your profound gratitude for their having been born and having written this…
Rogert Ebert ends his review of Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011): “Bottom line: This is the movie you may have been expecting. No less, no more.”…
After reading My Name is Mina by David Almond, (the daughter) Natalya was inspired by the discussion on tenses: present, future, past. She is in the midst of writing an…
This book came to me by way of a friend of a friend of a friend (the wife of a teacher of the daughter). It’s an Advance Reader’s Copy as…
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