First Day of Fall and the First Autumn Walk

7 years ago

A glorious day for a stroll around  the lake at Innisfree Garden.

The Day That Summer Died

7 years ago

The Day That Summer Died From all around the mourners came The day that Summer died, From hill and valley,…

Kate Millett, Eng Lit and the The Farm in Poughkeepsie

7 years ago

There are pockets of Poughkeepsie that still have a rural look and feel. Cows graze and the corn is ripe…

Blackberrying

7 years ago

Here then, as promised is the indulgence of blackberry poems. (For any very young readers confused by Thirteen Ways of…

Blackberry and Apple Crumble

7 years ago

If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs but we've got no eggs. That First World War…

Life in School: A New Year

7 years ago

New teacher orientation; playground supervision; transfixed with horror; a hard time unplugging; curriculum mapping. More Life in School Cartoons Life…

Bitter Strawberries

7 years ago

     Farm work is one of the best jobs for getting to know people as they really are. The…

The Reason Why: Digging into Cause and Effect

7 years ago

When it comes to school improvement - or the fine art of problem finding and solution seeking - it's always…

My gaze is clear as a sunflower

7 years ago

Paul Nash's fascination with aerial bombardment led him to an ecstatic vision of “the sky blossoming with floating flowers”. This,…

Saplings

7 years ago

I'm not giving anything away by quoting the deep irony of the last lines of Saplings: Turns you over, don’t…