When will I get bigger I wonder every day WIll I still like to run and jump And bound about and play? Will I still love to Hide-N-Seek Around with all my friends? My mom and dad say probably Though it really all depends If I remember all the best ...

Do you remember Schoolhouse Rock? I love, love, LOVED Schoolhouse Rock when I was a kid. And by “when I was a kid,” I mean right now. Wordplay, lessons, music, movement – I loved it all,  even bought a limited edition lunchbox with every song pressed onto a 4 CD ...

A merchant and father, without any wife And three lovely daughters; a wonderful life “I’m heading to market, some time around dawn I’ll swallow my coffee, and then I’ll be gone.” He turned to his daughters, looked each in their eyes Then smiled and whispered a special surprise: “While I’m ...

It’s Halloween and I can’t wait For a million things to celebrate I love this one day of the year When I walk the darkness without fear Creatures may creep and crawl through the night With witches on broomsticks and wizards in flight Vampires and werewolves, green men from space ...

The skeleton was scary “Would I lie to you?” he said I stared at him, no flesh on bones The dude was surely dead I did not believe the voice, of course Like daggers stabbing truth He told me I was on the freeway Flying past my youth Beauty fades, ...

Every day I sit in school Doodling drawings, dribbling drool I stare outside at silent sky And start a string of endless whys Too much to ponder, countless are queries So I wonder and wander and think up new theories These are today’s, the ones tickling my brain Endlessly dropping ...

Syllable soup is not sour or sweet No chunky vegetables, no floating meat There are terms and expressions, from message to motto Enunciated nouns and verbs with vibrato There are plenty of adjectives and probably some slang At least if you’d like your syllable soup to have tang Would you care ...

Once upon a time, I wasn’t a writer. My best friend and wife, Cindy, left her job at the school district, I left the family flower shop I’d loved for 12 years, and we opened a preschool together, so we could be with our two children, Ethan and Haley, for ...

If you are contemplating a steampunk Halloween this year, or just want to bring a touch of verisimilitude to your steampunk conventioneering, you shouldn’t stop with just brass fittings on a costume. The real touch of class comes from sounding like a Victorian gentleman or lady, too. Fortunately, there’s an app ...

We passed the flags flying halfway up. Waves of people walked alongside us. Some found themselves caught in sudden bursts of empathy, while others never even gave a glance. The flags carried on regardless. Ten years since it happened. Ten more birthdays for my stepfather. Ten more anniversaries of the ...