My mantra and favorite – from 9th grade
ITHAKA When you set out for Ithaka, ask that your way be long Full of instruction, full of adventure. The Laistrogonians and the …
Sharper than a scapel, more soothing than a balm, more supportive than a cast,
poetry, as medicine, is the way through.
ITHAKA When you set out for Ithaka, ask that your way be long Full of instruction, full of adventure. The Laistrogonians and the …
Robinson Jeffers 1887-1962 The Purse-Seine (1937) Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight they could not tell …
The Night House By Billy Collins Every day the body works in the fields of the world mending a stone wall or swinging a …
Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes First, her tippet made of tulle, easily lifted off her shoulders and laid on the back of a wooden …
Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just …
Child Development As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs and sauntered off the beaches into forests working up some irregular verbs for their first conversation, …