Well, I thought I had been to the Lake District during my five years living in London, but clearly not--I would have remembered all these da...

 I'm posting from near Manchester, England (" England, across the Atlantic Sea; and I'm a genius, genius, 'cos I believe in...

After the rounds of poetry tag played at my Honesdale Highlights workshop, I didn't think a tag game would ever be quite so exciting ag...

Update, August 12:  here we are, having done the deed! Those zebras are going to have to wait yet another week, because suddenly, after 20...

...to remark on how thrilling it was for our whole family to attend a midnight showing of You-Know-What 7 Part II last night.  Recently at T...

I've been thinking a lot about the essay I found earlier this week, "In Praise of Promiscuous Thinking," on Charles Bernstein...

I have carefully resisted invitations to " StumbleUpon " or "digg" all the gloriously random but gripping content of the...

Despite the unseasonable winter's morn and stormy day, this learish nonsense goes well with a beach vacation. Go on, stand up and declai...

Some coincidences cannot be ignored. A coupla weeks ago I enjoyed a gripping performance of the poem below by Joy Acey , a fellow participan...

As for many of us who teach, my last day of school has come and gone and all that's left is the cleaning up. I have more cleaning up tha...

I've just come across this article http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/12/us-usa-civilwar-whitman-idUSTRE73B7QU20110412 , which expla...

This is what I mean by "my juicy little universe." Go Walt. Miracles by Walt Whitman Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I ...