Category Archives: Questions and riddles

Sunday Walk at Dusk

I walk back from the asphalt of the school playground where I picked up a piece of wood a tree thought brought down in the wind of  two nights ago. along the sidewalk home someone might mistake this branch for … Continue reading

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You Don’t Have to Date Them to Understand Them

I remember one of my professors in college trying to explain to a student why we should read about characters we don’t like. It was the main character in Dostoyevski’s  “Notes from the Underground“, or was it one of Saul … Continue reading

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Poem Question

The Rhyme of Me? Tension, wire, bloody ram Maybe this is not the way I feel, but the way I am.

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Receiving Messages From Separate Individual Realities

grabbing a handful porcupine jello, the space contained in a floating soap bubble, lips vibrating, tongue clicking, throat coughing strangled groan, staggering, shuffle leap into the blinding wall. How can each voice be different and call us on To what … Continue reading

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Beginning the Journey Again

I wrote a comment on a list to a student who was wondering if the Reggio Emilia child centered approach to preschool was they way to go for a teacher just starting out. After I wrote I realized it really … Continue reading

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