Marvelous May

During my many years as a student, then continuing throughout my teaching career, the end of May has always triggered an excitement within me.

April Slips Into May

Good bye, April, thanks for all the fun! Your raindrops made great puddles. Perfect for...

February Blew By!

I raced through February on my annual Picture Book Marathon. Ran past the...

Welcome 2022

Before we plow into the cascading snows or Valentine hearts of the coming month I’d like to recognize, one more time, the season of gift-giving. It never is the brilliantly wrapped packages, the ...

A Poem for Autumn: Nature’s Ticker-Tape

Fall greetings to all! This change of season may come with whipping winds and stormy skies, but take courage in fall's passing beauty, for with it also comes hope and...

Christmas Can’t Be Stopped

As Christmas fast approaches, three Christmas Eve stories come to mind. I am thankful for the greatest gift given on the very first Christmas...

Lessons of the Jigsaw Puzzle

“I’m missing a piece!” My plaintive cry resounds through the empty kitchen. I imagined a beautiful puzzle, now going to be incomplete. But then I found that the missing piece had an important lesson for me...