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 [...]
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. [...]
This week’s Poetry Friday roundup is being hosted at Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup! Who would have thought that Tricia’s suggested poetry stretch (a recipe poem) would be so hard? For me, the challenge was trying to use the right mix of real recipe language while “cooking up” a poem about something as impossible as “Summer(y) [...]
It’s that time again – Poetry Stretch – and this week’s challenge was to write an acrostic poem. Since I’ve been playing around lately with garden poems, my offering this week is about a garden for those who love veggie pizza. I’ve seen these gardens described in several places and recently, at a workshop [...]
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 [...]
Bugs of the Computer Variety Today is one of those days when I… 1) *wish* I hadn’t updated to the latest version of WordPress and 2) wish I knew enough about HTML to be able to help myself. The best I can figure out, after scouting around the internet, is that the WP 2.8 version [...]
“Window Sijo” was this week’s poetry stretch – a first attempt at sijo, as described by Linda Sue Park in Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems). Heat was on my mind: a hot weekend in Death Valley and more hot weather at home. This week also brought the audio of Peony in Love by [...]
Here are my attempts at this week’s poetry stretch at The Miss Rumphius Effect – a bite-sized sonnet. I had no idea I would spend so much time on this tiny-sized version of a sonnet. The truth is, it’s just not that easy. At least for me… I did many many versions until I arrived [...]
It’s National Poetry Month! Don’t forget to check out the wonderful poetry moments happening all over the kid lit blogging community, including new, never-before- published poems and interviews with many of the best children’s poets writing today. You can jump start your poetry mornings this month with Greg Pincus at Gotta Book and Tricia at [...]
The other morning as I skimmed through the current issue of the Horn Book while doing morning face prep at the sink, I flipped open to a review of Joyce Sidman’s latest poetry collection: Red Sings from the Treetops: A Year in Colors. I love many of Sidman’s collections (particularly Song of the Waterboatman and [...]
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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