Poem A Day – Dec. 6, 2015
Most Sweet it is With Unuplifted Eyes
William Wordsworth
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
To pace the ground, if path be there or none,
While a fair region round the traveller ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 4, 2015
With My Brother
Robert Ostrom
Untying ropes from flagpoles.
Motionless, reluctant, unchanged
even by the stillness of flags
in a century of ordinary flags. How
I love to ride with my ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 3, 2015
Endtime
Anne Waldman
Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction?
– William Blake
Won’t come alive ever yet or again? In the mind of Endtime it looks like this: ... Continue Reading →
Mediterranean diet makes brain younger
SENIOR NEWS LINE by Matilda Charles
The Mediterranean diet has been in the news for years, but some of us aren’t sure if it offers any real benefits. Now we have a piece of the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 2, 2015
Sinking into the Leopard Pillow
Gillian Conoley
I threw out everything that didn’t give me a spark
and hung all the whites on the table.
Greens and deep dirt browns and grays.
The ... Continue Reading →
School Daze – New direction in reading
By Mrs. M.
Greetings from School Daze! Last month I talked about the “new” math, but this month it’s all about the new direction in English language arts (ELA).
The shift ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 1, 2015
A Nearly Perfect Morning
Jessica Greenbaum
It was a nearly perfect morning – bucolic, pastoral –
so I found myself cataloguing my past humiliations.
Really, there was no ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Nov. 30, 2015
A Yellow Leaf
Ariana Reines
It’s shivering
Like a little lady rattling her bell
Calling for tea
Quivering in the old style
There’s a red light in Boston
At the close of ... Continue Reading →
Make time to enjoy a new book or two over the holidays
December is a very busy time as we prepare for our respective holidays. But we still need to fit some time into our schedules for some good reads. Here are some of the latest arrivals ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Nov. 29, 2015
I Am a Little World Made Cunningly (Holy Sonnet V)
John Donne
I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic spright,
But black sin hath betrayed to endless night
My ... Continue Reading →
