I have collected quotations since I can remember. I have them in wonderful books, some with specific quotes (women, writers, women...

Many of the poems I have posted on my blog use metaphor (as do many poems in general). Today's poem makes the noon heat a mystic dog....

There is something magical about getting an actual card or letter in the mail; it was wonderful when that was the only way to get mail,...

In today's beautiful poem posted on this blog, "Little Star: Week 8," the speaker--a father-to-be--addresses his child-to-be. In his very...

I am a little obsessed with bridges. On drives across country, I will go out of my way in order to cross an old covered bridge miles from...

I love odes, I admit it. Counting my blessings? Sure. I try to find the beauty around me. I write down something I am grateful for every...

This week's prompt has 3 components. I have never seen this Clint Eastwood movie (see the title of this prompt), but the title has such a...

Today's poem on my blog, "Hope," was written by Elsa Gidlow and appears in her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread. Here is what the Academy of...

Today, after visiting two wineries, reading about some returning TV shows, listening to music, re-reading today's blog poem, and my...

Thanks to the New York Times, I just went down a rabbit hole of summer themes. (See the article that started this here--it's gifted, so...

Yesterday, my husband and I finally visited a place we have been meaning to go to since we moved to this area--Schreiner's Iris Gardens....

A few choices today for your prompt, and all are based on the poem on my blog today, "For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry" (from Jubilate...

If you were the poet David Shapiro, there was one day in which you posed for a photo that became symbolic and iconic and historic. The...

I think Cinco de Mayo is a lot like Saint Patrick's Day: it's bigger in American than it is in its origin country; people of all...

Do you remember the first movie you saw in a theater? The first movie date you had? How about the first DVD movie you bought? The movie...

Although most people know it as "Dogs Playing Poker," Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's 1903 painting is actually called A Friend in Need. It...

What are your favorite YA books from when you were young? Nancy Drew? Darius the Great Is Not Okay? The Poet X? Anne of Green Gables?...

First, please read Niina Pollari's stunning poem that is posted on my blog today. Then go buy her book. Then come back here and do this...

There are so many upcoming celestial events! A total solar eclipse on April 8. Saturn and Mars will appear very close together in the...

Of course you can! Just a smattering: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (science fiction novel) Will You Still Love...