Ode to Friday Remembered: 6 words and a color

reddening checks
devour
smooth grape leaves

Nothing says "must read!" like good, old fashioned censorship.

New Your Times Article, "With One Word, Children's Book Sets Off Uproar."

Thanks Superstar Reading Goddess Amy.

Book Review: Busybody Advice to a Character

to Goat from That's What Friends Are For
Written and illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev

Goat, if you were so concerned about Pig, you should have gone over early. However, since you prepared for the worst and did not burden Pig with your paranoia, I forgive you.

Ode to Friday: 6 words and a color

Peach:
the soft baby smell
lingers
lightly

Watching with Wonder, take 2

White, frosted, wetness
Scary roller coaster roads,
Thank you, Jack, thank you.

Watching with Wonder

White wetness outside,
Slowly freezing the road ways,
Why, Jack, am I here?

Haikus in Perspective

Happy Teacher:

Daydreaming, I am
background to heavy questions.
A Philosopher


Disgruntled, irritated teacher:

Children think too much,
creating complications,
Snot nosed know it all.

Ode to Friday: 6* words and a color

such a tiny cut
causes
such searing
red
pain



*give or take

I miss the Writer's Almanac. At 6:50, I miss it - I am at a meeting, at the xerox machine, at the library. I am anywhere but at my radio. My mind is all business, no room for poetry.

At 6:30, I was in my car, stopped at a red light, watching the sky turn from navy, to dark purple, to pink. I was in the perfect spot, at the perfect time. My mind was all poetry.

Paris on the Way to the Office

Two students on their way to the office. One wearing her pink Parisian pashmina, the other wearing Lisa Loeb's glasses:

Me: "Off to Paris ladies?"
LL: "Yes."

Later, during dismissal:

"How was Paris?"
Random student: "You went to Paris?'
LL: "Yes, on my way to the office. I had great Italian food there."