FOUR WORD SELF HELP Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives . by Patti Digh Author and blogger Patti Digh has created a sweet little book full of ...

I had been blogging here about a year or so when I stumbled on Patti Digh's wonderful soulful blog: 37 DAYS . Patti posed this quest...

papercut from the 19th century from the ephemera dealers ECLECTIBLES from Tolland, CT I took my digital point-and-shoot camera to the Sa...

Over on her blog 37 Days , Patti Digh sent out an invite to artists to illustrate some of the essays from her blog for her forthcoming book....

Thanks to a thought provoking post on Sharon B's blog In A Minute Ago (one blog I read daily)----during the past few days I have been p...

Buy a Friend a Book Week is October 1-7 (as well as the first weeks of January, April, and July). During this week, you’re encouraged to bu...

I have a new penpal---and I haven't had an actual PENPAL since I was a little girl! Thanks to Felicia Sullivan --who sponsored a penpal ...

I haven't blogged about books and reading for awhile but I liked this blog meme I came across on a blog I like--- Naked Without Books , ...

Two Butterflies went out at Noon— (533) by Emily Dickinson Two Butterflies went out at Noon— And waltzed above a Farm— Then stepped straight...

Why I Am Not a Painter by Frank O’Hara I am not a painter, I am a poet. Why? I think I would rather be a painter, but I am not. Well, for in...

A RITUAL TO READ TO EACH OTHER by William Stafford If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you...

How hard is this? a poem a day for National Poetry Month? (just a nice short one today...) the heart quilt square here created recently by m...

Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the red...