This is Juno, intragalactic voyager and space explorer. Since launching in 2011, Juno has traveled millions of miles to reach the largest...

Okay, so this week, July 12 through July 18, is National Forest Week. Personally, I think we should celebrate forests and trees and...

Go away? Or come and stay? That rather depends on various conditions. We can't survive without rain, but like many good things, too much...

Did you know that the ancient Greek word for firefly is kysolampis, which roughly translates to "shining butt"? (The root words mean...

"The ship came down from space. It came from the stars and the black velocities, and the shining movements, and the silent gulfs of...

"Spring is the mischief in me," Robert Frost, renowned New England poet, writes. Frost first published his poem, "The Mending Wall," in...

It seems I write something about this each year, or at least post something about it. I'm not alone. Challenging the premise of Columbus...

The short answer should be "probably." Once upon a childhood, I grew up within walls, like most of us do, and admittedly, my home today...

I’ve seen the false narratives about Irish “enslavement” in the Americas going around again. You demean the true and complicated...

On January 11, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his annual state of the union address as a “fireside chat,” one of the...

A few resources for Earth Day (originally posted April 1, 2020) ... Looking for some ways to celebrate Earth Day (which you can do any...

On my brain today, and above all, as a writer-educator, I love calling attention to primary sources. Bread and Roses As we come marching,...

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a bit, and then I stumbled on this article: Let’s Quit Brainwashing Kids that It’s a College...

I just made a general post on my personal FB page, and it occurs to me that it might be of use from the perspective of writing. Here’s...

I’m going a little out on a limb here. I think we have a problem with how we are approaching literature and English in our schools. Yes,...