Happy Labor Day! Today is a day to celebrate workers, but often, that gets lost in the hubbub of picnics, parades, barbecues, yard work,...

Yesterday was World Refugee Day, an event first declared by the UNHCR (United Nations Human Rights Commission) in 2000. As I explained in...

Happy World Down Syndrome Day! It's March 21, World Down Syndrome Day, which is all about raising awareness about Down syndrome (Ds) and...

I have several blog posts in the works (and in the rears as I'm behind on them) but I decided to jump ahead for this one. International...

What do mold, mildew, yeast, mushrooms, and rust (the plant kind) all have in common? (Pssst. Check the title of this post.) You got it!...

>> Jump to books about pollinators. That is NOT the question! Pollination is essential to the survival of flowering plants, which makes...

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...