Congratulations to sidrar and masconejos on their wedding! I was very sad not to be able to be there. May God bless you and grant you many, many years together.

Happy 441st Birthday, William Shakespeare!

do they expect me to plan a lesson on World War I when numerous WWI websites are blocked by the school's filtering program for "violence/profanity"?

In what I find to be one of the most moving parts of Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia, the seventeen-year-old mathematician Thomasina weeps for the burning of the library of Alexandria ( Read more... )

A touching story of maternal devotion... with tentacles.

From Auden's "The Fall of Rome."Caesar's double-bed is warm ( Read more... )

He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!

Emily Dickinson

No, not that one. This is Blake's.O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stainèd ( Read more... )

a song by Richard ThompsonWhen the stone is grown too cold to kneel ( Read more... )

While my parents and brother were out of town looking at colleges for him, someone broke into our house and took my father's laptop, my father's and brother's guitars, and a few other things. That guitar, a Martin, was older than I am. The sound of it rings all the way back down my childhood. The laptop contained my father's work. Some was backed ( Read more... )