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Waiting for a Poem

Sat, 8 Mar 2014, 07:29 PM (-06:00)

My grandfather was born in 1907, I told the kids. I was on the floor, and they were on pillows in a semicircle around me. I told them how in the summers we would camp in the woods in Michigan. How we had campfires in the evening. Imagine it, I said. There we were in […]

Culture Day

Tue, 12 Mar 2013, 08:18 PM (-06:00)

There was Japan and Korea and Vietnam. There was England and Spain and France. There was Mexico and the USA. There were people dressed up in shiny dresses. There were tasty ethnic snacks. There was a guy playing folk songs on an acoustic guitar, and several classrooms down the hall there was another man playing […]