Pink Granite

“To our sages who toiled - To the one who chopped wood; to the one who raised cattle To the storekeeper, the cobbler, and the one who sold...

The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon launched yesterday and it was fantastic! As I Tweeted last night: "Jimmy Fallon could have done a M...

I love former Poet Laureate Billy Collins’ poetry and his Poetry 180 Project. This video takes his poem “Litany” to another level - a delig...

The house at the end of our street was torn down. We heard a few different versions of how the lovely, mid-nineteenth century farmhouse had...

Seamus Heaney is brilliant. This clever video presents Seamus reading his poem “Digging” in a marvelous and engaging way. If you are tempte...

Similar to the Irish tradition of remaining with the body of a loved one until burial, Shemira is the Jewish ritual of attending or guardin...

...He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, as he d...

This New York Times article reports on the efforts of the Negro Leagues Grave Marker Project. Over the last six years, the group has provi...

Thelma Lucille Sayles Clifton passed away on Saturday at the age of 73. She was a brilliant, powerful poet . Thank you Ms. Clifton, for y...

My Mom doesn’t have a computer, nor does she want one. When I started this blog three plus years ago, it was a little difficult for her to ...

I’ve always worn my hair long. Well, except for one disastrous home “trim” my mother gave me in fourth grade, which required an emergency t...

There’s a good television show on the USA network called “ In Plain Sight ”. It focuses on a couple of U.S. Marshals who serve in the Feder...

Shoah is the Hebrew word for whirlwind or destruction and has come to be the word which describes the Holocaust of European Jewry from 1933 ...

in just spring when the world is mud-luscious... when the world is puddle-wonderful... - e.e. cummings ( 1894 - 1962) The snow is recedin...

Today is my father’s yahrzeit ; the anniversary of the day he died. Dad passed away 21 years ago today. Just typing “21 years” causes me t...

“I believe that if I should die and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.” - Benito...

Praise song for the day. Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others' eyes or not, about to speak ...

I have reached the point of being truly frustrated by and therefore obsessed with making this audio clip work easily for you all. It was v...

This Post Has Been Edited! May 8, 2008 - Well, this is a first for me on this blog. I’ve had to radically edit this post due to some techno...

On this, the last day of National Poetry Month here in the United States, I encourage you to read a poem. Or write a poem. Or read a poem a...