Today is Poetry Friday, and Karen Edmisten is hosting. Thank you! Thank you, Poetry Sisters, for the invitation to join you in passing notes to a poem. I chose to use first lines in Nikki Giovanni’s “Talk to Me, Poem, I Think I Got the Blues” to start my stanzas. Then I wrote a note […]| Dare to Care
On Monday eight women activists drove 1.5 hours to the office of our U.S. Representative. We met with two of his staff members to try to seek the release of our friend and asylum seeker, Rocio. You can read her story here, and you can still sign and share the petition at the same link. […]| Dare to Care
19 August 2025 TwoWritingTeachers.orgOn Friday, we got up early and took a summer bike ride around our desert. (After several weeks of excessively hot low temperatures, we had not been out for a while.) The Friday morning ride reminded me of the delights we have had since we bought our electronic mountain bikes over three years ago. We’ve had quite a few bumps and bruises and one cut lip, but more joys than we can count.| Dare to Care
Today is Poetry Friday. Margaret Simon, at Reflections on the Teche, is rounding up the posts this weekend.| mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org
Today is Poetry Friday. Margaret Simon, at Reflections on the Teche, is rounding up the posts this weekend. Tonight the Stafford Challenge had a guest speaker–Philip Metres shared poems and some of his poetic values. I heard of Philip last year when he and Jessica Jacobs used the same artwork on the covers of their […]| Dare to Care
Last Monday evening I was in a Zoom meeting with these poetry writing friends and bloggers: Glenda Funk, Kim Johnson, and Barb Edler. We talked about Slice of Life, and I made a commitment to write about our meeting, so I snapped this screenshot. During this Stafford Challenge small group meeting, Barb gave us the […]| Dare to Care
What a motley crew in this photo taken 30 years ago! Jim is the one in the back row with the red shirt and suspenders.Family–What a blessing!| Dare to Care
21 July 2025 TwoWritingTeachers.org| Dare to Care
Liberty is a word I’d like to keep. How about you?| mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org
To begin with, here are a few verses from one of my favorites, Psalm 19. This portion celebrates how the sun and other works of nature declare the glory of God.| Dare to Care
On Friday afternoon, I received a reminder from Google Calendar telling me the Poetry Marathon was going to start on Saturday at 6:00 a.m. Oh, boy! I had forgotten all about it, but I was game. I put on my brave poetry writing face, and started writing a poem an hour for 24 house. By […]| Dare to Care
The bloom where you are planted plaque on my Grandma’s wall led me here. Here, to this stage in life, privileged to be blooming old. We sang this song on Sunday, the verses were in Spanish, but we sang the chorus in English. (I’ve been attending a Spanish language service for several months.) All my […]| Dare to Care
It’s Poetry Friday in National Poetry Month. It’s been a busy month for me, entertaining good friends and family, chasing my sweet almost three-year-old grandson, celebrating my husband’s 70th, protests and good trouble work. I have missed being here. Today’s Poetry Friday host is Heidi at my juicy little universe. She’s got some Earth Day love, […]| Dare to Care
April 15, 2025 – Color in Nature with Brittany Saulnier| Dare to Care
Liberty is a word I’d like to keep. How about you?| Dare to Care