This week’s poem for #Mindfulness Mondays is not actually a poem, it’s an excerpt from Marianne Williamson’s “A Return to Love.”  Rachel Willis selected it for her reflection in Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach....

I used to be Alex, but now I am Ms. G — Alexandra Glinsbockel Identity. A simple word – 8 letters, 4 syllables. Yet it may well be one of the most elusive constructs in the world. Defined by the...

Congratulations to DeAnn Akins for winning Greg John’s Notes from the Playground and to Jan Meyer for winning Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson’s Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems. Our next Book Giveaway is The Courage Way:...

I can think of no better poem for launching Mindfulness Mondays than “On How to Pick and Eat Poems” by Phyllis Cole-Dai. It serves as a preface poem to the collection in Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems...

I don’t know about you, but when it comes to Book Clubs, I have a fear of commitment! I love books; I even love talking about them.  However, I’m not much of a joiner, and frankly, I feel overwhelmed by...

Is this real? — Mike Mangiaracina The other day, I decided to do something different with my second-grade science classes. Kids love myths and I love doing read-alouds, so I pulled together a few myths to see how they might...

I decided to start each week by reading a mindfulness poem from Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems. I thought I’d share something from the first poem here, but I didn’t get that far. I was so taken...

January Book Giveaway: Poetry of Presence This month’s Book Giveaway, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems, has over 150 mindfulness poems to ease your spirit throughout the year. Below is a profile of Barbara Crooker, one of the...

January Book Giveaway! I’m delighted to announce that Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems edited by Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson is our next Book Giveaway. Poetry of Presence is the perfect book to start off the...

Books make great gifts. Opening a book, we are transported and transformed. Authors are the wizards of our modern world. But most of what they do is behind the scenes – no dazzling displays for them. Most spend years quietly...