What do Amanda Gorman, Ang Lee, Harper Lee, and Vera Wang have in common? All four studied overseas! Amanda Gorman studied in Spain during her junior year at Harvard. Filmmaker Ang Lee from Taiwan studied in New York. Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird studied a semester at the University of Oxford. Designer […]
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50 Neighbors Light the Night
The results of one person’s email to the neighborhood are in – a magical, homegrown ice lantern evening! People took Bundt pans, buckets, Tupperware, perhaps even trash cans, filled them with water and a second heavy object inside in order to create an open space in the center and put them outside to freeze. At […]
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Forlorn Frosty Falling Fence Forfeits Future
Snow may be the final blow for these pickets hanging low. Fluttering Fence Frail railrotting in jailwithout bailprecarious flailmissed a key nailleaning til it failsthat’ll end this taleand its boat will sailas it hits the dale. –Rebecca Cuningham Thanks for stopping by! May all your friendships be long and your fences strong. ¡Olé! –Rebecca Check […]
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1738: Black Freedom Fort Built in Florida
Harriet Tubman did wonderful work in the Underground Railroad, but this is not a story about her. This is an earlier account of an Underground Railroad, that went from South Carolina to Florida in the late 1600s and into the 1700s. At that point, the Spanish still owned Florida. They wanted to increase their population […]
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February Free Verse Poetry Challenge
Thank you for your wonderful response to the February Free Verse Poetry Challenge! Marvelous poems from both sides of the Atlantic, I appreciate our February poets very much. ¡Gracias por su participación maravillosa en el Reto poético de verso libre de febrero! Poemas geniales de ambos lados del Oceano Atlántico, aprecio mucho a nuestros poetas […]
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Walk, Wind, Ski and the Snow
As a troupe of seasoned British comedians would say, “And now for something completely different…” in this case, snow! We put so much energy into wishing for winter precipitation in November and December, and here we’ve got it, we really do. Two feet is plenty, thanks. Wouldn’t mind passing a bit along to our friends […]
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