Thoughtful commentary will resume after I update my resume and prepare to find a new job. I am now officially an "involuntary transfer...

This week I'm celebrating my first foray into publishing poetry for adults. I'm delighted to say that I have three poems in Life in ...

Wednesday I spent 6 hours in a hearing of the House Ways & Means Committee of Maryland's General Assembly, waiting to testify on a b...

The poetry version of last week's first-grade effort to grasp character traits... On the outside, you can see my physical traits: ...

There has been a lot of discussion recently about, to put it dramatically, the death of the poetry anthology and the difficulty of gettin...

Recently on NPR's Science Friday there was a piece on how our many online social media opportunities raise a question about the multiple...

I have taught sizeable classes of 2nd graders, more than once, and I don't remember it being as challenging as parenting a single 2nd-gr...

"CONCLUSION [OF THE MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION]: ...because we find that the local board has failed to provide any rationale fo...

Last week I mentioned Frank O'Hara and linked to a really interesting piece on him by yet another poet I didn't know, Elaine Equi . ...

My son is 8 and although he knows a lot about the world, I'm sometimes surprised at what I assume he knows and doesn't. We had anoth...

Every day on the morning announcements at my school, there's a "Did you know...?" Yesterday's was, "Did you know it m...

It was fairly easy, at the dinner table on our Yuletide Day of Intellect, to answer Daisy's question,"Who is Garrison Keillor ?...