Because I know the minimalist lifestyle is the right thing to do, and to know your colors is to know yourself, but every so often I want to not know a thing or two about who I am and what I’m all about and so I go to the library because it is in the library that I can make… View Post

When Your son is crowned and we are shattered like pottery will the broken and sharp pieces – all of what we’ve done wrong all of what made You angry – will those pieces become part of Your son’s crown, too? A Poetry Project inspired by Megan Willome’s Substack: “The Sheep Speaks.”

From the First Presbyterian Faith Formation newsletter…. One of my favorite “how to teach” books begins with a question. It comes from Esme Raji Codell, and it goes something like this: How would you go about teaching if your only curriculum resource was a sack of potatoes? OK so for math maybe you teach graphing and statistics to decide the… View Post

My goal for the Year of Content Guided Planning Session was to overwhelm writers with possibility, but also give them some tips and tricks for diving into that possibility. We read, talked about, and wrote poetry. We played (or maybe practiced) make-believe. We wrote furiously in response to questions, digging out memories and turning them into stories. I believe (I… View Post

September 28, 2005             A bouquet of sunflowers sits in a purple vase in a window of a brightly lit bedroom. The red, pink, and orange duvet is taught across the bed, which holds several matching oversized pillows. Placed at an angle that faces two windows – one overlooking the Chicago skyline, the other providing a view of the numerous… View Post