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I learned the joys of poems when I was in Phyllis Wells’s fourth grade class. Every month we had a day for writing in our poetry notebooks. ...

*Originally printed in the Joplin Globe on the Op-Ed page The Future of Newspapers The recent announcement that the Christian Science Monito...

Okay, so it is official now: I am old. Hard to believe that I made it to this age and so fast! I have accepted the decades gracefully until ...

Writing Deadline is November 1 Oh golly, I am going to miss The Solomon Valley Call for Voices Writing Contest this year. This has been one ...

This summer was cooler than usual and seemed short. Autumn started early and the air has been chilly on given days. The trees seem slow to ...

It is early in October, but already the nights are getting down to a chilly 40 degrees. The sumac sports a scarlet hue and cottonwoods are a...

October is National Reading Group Month October is National Reading Group Month, and the organization’s annual Signature Event will be held ...