Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Display a light bulb, telephone, phonograph record, scotch tape and other items invented by 19th or early 20th century inventors. Talk about the items with children and ask them to imagine what life was like before these items were part of everyday life. Lit up the night! Look for more inventor poems in Eureka! By Joyce Sidman, Millbrook Press, 2002.

A Collection of Really Good Poetry. Saturday, September 18, 2010. Poem by Linda Leedy Schneider. My Hands Speak After 25 Years Paris was served on a fresh platewith honey on the side,and I took its hand. My left hand says this is true. I call my right, the one that thoughtwe should have married the doctor. It touches my hair as the phone rings. My right hand cups my right breast,the one that always tightens first.

Poetryfromafar-Poems by Martha Little, paintings by Matug Aborawi. I have a painter friend who is an immigrant from North Africa, Matug Aborawi. There is something alarming and compelling about his paintings, and also expectant and hopeful. Can there be so many arms.

Those who do not believe in anyone thing,. Weakness shaking to the very core. Wednesday, 10 March 2010. Friday, 26 February 2010. The people of the book,.

I wish you had been here when I had my first child. And I wish you could be here now to see her pretty smile. I wish you could be here when I need to call my Mommy. And I wish you had been here when my baby first called me Mommy. And I wish you could be here now so she could make you laugh. Would you laugh to see my baby driving me insane.