Before The Charge: The Great Push, Loos, September 1915
Before the Charge The night is still and the air is keen, Tense with menace the time crawls by, In…
First Day of Fall and the First Autumn Walk
A glorious day for a stroll around the lake at Innisfree Garden.
The Day That Summer Died
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
There are pockets of Poughkeepsie that still have a rural look and feel. Cows graze and the corn is ripe…
Blackberrying
Here then, as promised is the indulgence of blackberry poems. (For any very young readers confused by Thirteen Ways of…
Blackberry and Apple Crumble
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
New teacher orientation; playground supervision; transfixed with horror; a hard time unplugging; curriculum mapping. More Life in School Cartoons Life…
Bitter Strawberries
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
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
Paul Nash's fascination with aerial bombardment led him to an ecstatic vision of “the sky blossoming with floating flowers”. This,…