As National Poetry Month continues, you may feel compelled to put pen to paper or fingertips to keyboard and compose a few verses yourself. Wonderful! Congratulations! You’ve caught the writer’s bug, and the only cure is to get words on the page. But where to start? If you’re new to poetry or writing in general,
There’s no one else like you in the world. No one with the same tongue-print or identical ear shape. Nobody else has your memories, and every experience you’ve ever had is unique to you alone. You might favor one parent or the other, you may have a twin or a doppelganger, but in the end,
The Uptown Music Collective is set to return to the Community Arts Center stage to present Good Times Bad Times: The Music of Led Zeppelin for three live performances on April 16th & 17th. This high-energy tribute from the area’s premier school of music will feature talented young musicians between the ages of 12 and
Abandoned There are several forty-day periods recognized in the Bible: the rain of Noah’s flood, Goliath’s taunting of Israel, Moses on the mountain, the spies in the promised land, Jesus in the wilderness. The number forty seems to be significant. Theologians speculate as to why, but the Bible does not give us that detail. There
April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Distracted driving is performing any action that takes your attention or focus off the road or your hands off the wheel. While cell phone use is the most commonly discussed form of distracted driving it is not the only form of distracted driving. Things such as eating while
Back in 1996, the Academy of American Poets launched the month of April as National Poetry Month to remind the public that poets and poetry are part of the national cultural conversation, both for social discourse and education. In the past 25 years, almost a billion readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and poets
Busy season is pretty much upon us. Spring sports practices, tons of yard work that needs to be done, the last couple months of school, and just wanting to be outside enjoying this extra daylight we are finally getting. It’s a season we have all been longing to have for months! It just comes with
Finders Keepers. It’s all yours now, that cool, unique, surprise thing that suddenly turned up and you laid claim to it. What once was lost is yours now. Finders keepers, except, as in the new novel “The Jigsaw Man” by Nadine Matheson, what’s found is a dead body. Looking as though it was about to
Spring always brings with it a sense of hope and renewal, and this year we definitely need as much of that as we can get. Along with everything starting to bloom, the days getting longer, and the chill slowly ebbing, this time of year also means dress season has begun! As we come out of
