Category: WRITING

  • Touching the Heart of Childhood~ a visit with poetry teacher extraordinaire~ Ann Gengarelly

    “If we forget poetry, we will forget ourselves.” Octavia Paz Most know Ann Gengarelly through the children– and the poetry they write– under her care.  These poems have traveled from the hearts of families and friends in her home state of Vermont–to the floor of the United States Senate, where “Distance,”  a student’s poem about…

  • Free Healthcare

    “In America, no one should go without health care.” ~AFL-CIO My husband is a teacher so we don’t have to pay for health care.  They just take $3,000 a year in premiums out of his paycheck.  We’ve chosen the most affordable “plan” his school offers.  This year they didn’t even increase our premiums, they just…