A small percentage of children learn to read before going to school. If you ask their parents how that happened, they shrug their shoulders and say, “I don’t know. She just started reading.”



Read Right recreates the experience of these children who figure out reading on their own and who read excellently from the beginning.



Read Right reflects the belief that the main event of reading is not figuring out what the words are.



Read this:



Aoccdrnig to… Continue

Who doesn't

want to dance

to be inside the body

not somewhere beside it

to feel the arms and legs

hot and clean in a clear lake of air

like fins, as though every limb

were a fish for a moment

free of the water out of the world--

the body, strange as a planet

reeling in its own soft sparkle



Who doesn't want to dance

to let the body go gracefully mad

to fall into the music as though

from a cliff-- every muscle a… Continue

Amanda Lorenzo is enjoying her writing retreat in the peaceful hills near Yosemite National Park in California.



“I’ve lost my magnifying glass.”



Every day is an opportunity to commune with nature. She is particularly fond of the wild turkeys that wander through the yard with their young in tow.



“Is today Saturday?”



Morning as especially sweet, as the sun begins its climb into the sky.



“Can you adjust that blind again?



Today it… Continue

Need something fun, outdoorsy, and dare I say it, ed-jah-kay-shun-al, to do with the kids, grandkids or great aunt Matilda? Do you have secret desires to find hidden treasure, to embark on a secret mission, or finish your day with something totally cool to share on Twitter or Facebook? Fess up now!



I just discovered the world of GeoCaching, a hidden trove of treasure just waiting to be found. And very likely you've walked or driven by hundreds of them without ever seeing them on your… Continue

Today I recieved and email from President Barack Obama asking me to support the push for Health Care reform in this country. Last week his administration issued a brief in support of the Defense of Marraige Act (DOMA). This N Y Times editorial piece gives the details: NY Times Editorial: A Bad Call On Gay Rights



In effect the Justice department upheld DOMA by citing old rulings that states do not have to… Continue