This week, I’ve been enjoying Natalie Merchant’s CD, LEAVE YOUR SLEEP. One of the song-poems that have been going through my head is “Equestrienne” by Rachel Field. “See, they are clearing the sawdust course For the girl in pink on the milk-white horse…” Find the rest of the poem here. Equestrienne: Poem by Rachel Field, [...]
photo credit: Muffet It’s Poetry Friday! A line from this poem cropped up in my memory this week. Something about the rhythm, not the words, came back. Poetry has a way of doing that, doesn’t it? The memory of the sound of it can linger in some far dark corner of our minds. So I [...]
I had no idea when I chose my selection for Poetry Friday that the round-up was being hosted by PaperTigers. It seems providential somehow, that the poem I chose to post (with permission) is one my good friend, Nancy Bo Flood, shared in an email early this morning. By pure coincidence, Nancy was a guest [...]
My niece is getting married tomorrow and spring is in the air. The family has flown in from various places, with more arriving later today. Most of us are staying in a beautiful house on a small canal off Okanagan Lake. Family members are chipping in to make sure the day is special. Yesterday, we [...]
It’s Poetry Friday and Julie Larios/The Drift Record is hosting this week. On the floor beside my computer is a favorite book/poem of childhood, “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” by Eugene W. Field. I have vague recollections of someone – my mother, probably – reading it to me. And another memory of the shoe-shaped sailing ship, [...]
photo credit: Randy Son Of Rober Last week, on Poetry Friday, Carol posted “A Thanksgiving Blessing.” I’m reposting here, as I love the sentiments expressed, especially - the “warmth of hope rising,” “May we … speak… of our healings and blessings,” and “May we be with each other… in the light of the present.” A [...]
My Poetry Friday offering is a three (poems) -in-one (book) affair: One Book: The Tree that Time Built: a celebration of nature, science and imagination – a beautiful new collection of poems selected by Mary Ann Hoberman (U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate) and Linda Winston. Three Poems: **One Old Elm: I began a mini-unit this week [...]
It’s been a busy month away from home, but I am finally back again and on the final countdown for the start of school. Poetry Friday is a perfect way to ease into the routine. Today’s offering is a revision of a mask poem I wrote ages ago in a UCLA extension children’s poetry class. [...]
Some amazing Abecederian poems are posted over at this week’s Poetry Stretch. Be sure to check them out! Speaking of which, Tricia’s Friday poetry post about sunflowers reminded me of a summer, several years ago, when my family and I spent a week in a Tuscan farmhouse. Sunflowers were in bloom everywhere. It was lovely. My contribution [...]
I've lived and traveled around the world, but now make my home in California.
By day, I teach; evenings and many weekends, I write.
My teaching, reading, and writing eventually led to a Master's degree in Language and Literacy and, later, an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
My first picture book, BLUE ON BLUE, is forthcoming from Beach Lane Books (Simon and Schuster).
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