An Hour A Day

The Writer's Almanac for today offers a number of New Year's Eve quotations from Tennyson, Twain, and others. This is the one that...

When I attended my poetry retreat three years ago, the poet who led/taught/inspired us for the weekend was the remarkable and wonderful Moll...

One of the projects I have to do over the break is to write the paper that I am contributing to an edited collection on romanticism and chil...

Last night I saw Hello, Dolly! at the Boulder Dinner Theater with my colleague Carol and her daughter, Elspeth. I knew it would be wonderfu...

Now that I have eaten my way through three tins of cookies and several plates of fudge, it is time to turn my thoughts to using the rest of ...

Today I baked my mother's special Christmas cinnamon rolls. My mother served these on Christmas morning every Christmas that I can rem...

I spent a most happy day today working on a scholarly paper on Rufus M. , by Eleanor Estes, published in 1943; I'm submitting the paper ...