It’s been a long, busy week. Aside from all the worries and travails we’ve been dealing with collectively here in this country and the world, I’ve been dealing with anxiety and st…

It's been a long, busy week. Aside from all the worries and travails we've been dealing with collectively here in this country and the world, I've been dealing with anxiety and stress for my own personal reasons: working on a manuscript that may never see the light of day, visiting a school out of state, and talking to my kids about why respect, justice, and responsibility appear nonexistent these days.

When it comes to blogging, sometimes you struggle to figure out what you want to write about. Sometimes...things just come together. Case in point: thanks to the recent solar flares, we've had some nice viewing of the northern lights this past week. We live in a very wooded area, so it's hard to see them as clearly as some folks - and even living in New Hampshire, we're not far enough north to see the detail that some folks do.

A man went forth with gifts. He was a prose poem.He was a tragic grace.He was a warm music. He tried to heal the vivid volcanoes.His ashes arereading the world. His Dream still wishes to anoint... (click here to continue reading) - © 1968 Gwendolyn Brooks, all rights reserved. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Brooks, the first Black woman appointed U.S.

I hope you had as nice and restful a break as I did these past few weeks. I’ve been thinking a lot about unanswered prayers lately – but I’ll get to that later. I took the holiday…

I hope you had as nice and restful a break as I did these past few weeks. I’ve been thinking a lot about unanswered prayers lately – but I’ll get to that later. I took the holiday…

I hope you had as nice and restful a break as I did these past few weeks. I've been thinking a lot about unanswered prayers lately - but I'll get to that later. I took the holidays off from blogging and focused my energy and time on Christmas, our family, and recharging. And after a busy, busy year that included a new anthology, the NH Book Festival, the Chappaqua Book Festival, the Newton (MA) Book Festival, and more school and library visits than I've ever done in a single year - whew, it was a much-needed respite, to say the least.