On Being Simply True

Because I can teach all the literary devices I want them to learn throughout the year by using poems for examples: Metaphor in "Dr...

Miss Maudie (Rosemary Murphy) and Jem Finch (Phillip Alford) in the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird (The subject of this post i...

In 1966, desperate to find a book to read, I snuck into my brother’s room when no one was home and browsed through the books in his clo...

Today’s blog post is dedicated to my long-time friend, Barbara Tinsley. A score of years ago or so—when our grandchildren were children...

This is what she’s supposed to look like: This is what she looked like when I finally—inadvertently—found her this week: I...

“I think of each day as a gold coin that you are required to trade for something. You’ll never get that coin back, so whatever you trade i...

Good-by, 2015, and good riddance. I am relieved to be shed of you. Good-by to all the grief that came in this year—the deaths of two be...