Momma, A couple of years ago, I wrote you a poem for your birthday, a pretty bad one. But, you loved it, because I wrote it. When I was a child, you choose to walk your own path instead of going where others told you. It wasn't easy, but you did it. You …
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A Poem A Day… National Poetry Month
Every year since I began teaching, I have done something to celebrate National Poetry Month. This time around, I have a both a blog and a classroom. While I would love to say that I have taken up the challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days, I just don't feel like I can do …
Dear Cancer
Dear Cancer, Tonight I found out that you are killing another friend of mine; draining his life away before the eyes of his loved ones. His spirit is tired and just wants to rest; sleep however, offers little relief. Life keeps moving on at a normal pace, but now thanks to you it exhausts him …
Dusk and Summer – A Review
It has been a long time since a book has held me captive, curled and cuddled beneath my covers until its pages were through with my mind. Dusk and Summer by Joesph A. Pinto kept me prisoner this afternoon while I hungrily devoured every last sentence down to the final period. The novella published by …
Emma, Emma, Emma, What Have You Done?
A Review of Jane Austen's Emma Another novel of love, manners and courtship, but this time the protagonist has options; two to be exact. She can either find a husband or become a spinster. The early pages of the novel lead us to believe that Emma has chosen the later option because she does not …
Where do we go from here?
So I took the plunge and started my life over again. Now what? What is it that I am trying to do that I couldn't do before and with a partner? My new house is coming together. There are curtains hanging in the bedroom and dinning room. I even have a table cloth and place …
Back on Track.. Well.. Kinda of…
Thank you for continuing to patronize this site in my absence. In the last two weeks, I have ended a long term relationship and moved into a place of my own again. It was a hard step to make, but a necessary one. Sometimes even when you love someone it isn't meant to be a …
Day Two of Gratitude:My Greatest Teachers
Each day that I go to school, I prepare myself for my students. Prepare to teach them and guide them where they need to be. And each day, they teach me something. One of my students, Sofie, left her abusive boyfriend, is now sleeping on her parent's sofa with her daughter. She didn't wait for …
Lucinda Rose 