Today marks the beginning of National Poetry Month. Last year I did a Poetry Month series here on the blog, posting a poem each day. It wasn’t always easy. Poems are protected by the same copyright laws that apply to other written works. To share a complete poem here, it has to be in the […]
Read MoreIt’s tempting to spend our upcoming UK trip staring at plaques on the sides of buildings. Little metal plaques that say “Jane Austen lived here” or “Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist here.” (It would be an interesting trip but the photos would be repetitive.) The amount of literary history in England is staggering to me. […]
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I haven’t left the country in a decade. My passport is expired (and missing), and the cost of international flights recently gave me sticker shock. The price I once paid for a round-trip ticket to Asia is now the going rate for a flight to Europe. It seems I have some catching up to do […]
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