- - Diane Wakoski preparing to read poetry at The Scarab Club In Michigan in June we see lots of June beetles banging against lighte...

- - These orphaned robin's eggs that Don found on the ground while he mowed around the spruce tree are normal in the earth's e...

- - Maybe it's because of National Poetry Month that I've been reflecting a lot on why I write poems. This blog has changed dramat...

- - The tavern in the middle of our town looked like one of those windowless bars I rode by when I was a kid in the back of the station wag...

- - Nineteen of us, including babies, headed to the family cottage for the fall clean-up Saturday. We took out screens on the porch and w...

- -   We finally watched Gran Torino last night, Clint Eastwood's 2008 film, set in Highland Park, a suburb of Detroit where Walt (Eas...

- - I have been thinking that we are now living in an age of change, so rapid that it is hard to keep up, and that this is sort of new. Ch...

- - When Peter Spier wrote and illustrated People in 1980, there were over 4 billion people in the world. Now, thirty years later, there a...