An Academic Prompted Poetry Day (#VerseLove26) so I Threw It Back to Syracuse When Abu and I Were First Introduced For several years, I've enjoyed Jack Power's workshop on writing like a poet, where he uses Robert Gibb's poem, Homestead Park , to get kids...

An Academic Prompted Poetry Day (#VerseLove26) so I Threw It Back to Syracuse When Abu and I Were First Introduced

A Short Poem for a Monday. Gaming Poetic Games for #VerseLove26. And Now We Have a Busy Week to Think About Ahead About these temperatures. To go from 70s to 30s it a little difficult for aging bones and goosebumps. I sat inside most of the day to plan b...

A Short Poem for a Monday. Gaming Poetic Games for #VerseLove26. And Now We Have a Busy Week to Think About Ahead

I Somewhat Weed-Whacked, but Also Had an Uexpected Vistor, Some House Joy, & Then Dinner on the Water with Brilliant Students Saturdays and Sundays are meant for rolling with whatever is supposed to come. I had grandiose ideas about grading and planning, which I sor...

I Somewhat Weed-Whacked, but Also Had an Uexpected Visitor, Some House Joy, & Then Dinner on the Water with Brilliant Students

Getting Spicy with #VerseLove26. I Went With Nutmet (It's the Constitutional State After All). But We are Upon a Weekend, So Let It All Simply Be Okay, Friday was an on- and off-again day with meetings, programs, meetings, and a lunch with an ol' student. I think I accomplished what I ...

Getting Spicy with #VerseLove26. I Went With Nutmet (It's the Constitutional State After All). But We are Upon a Weekend, So Let It All Simply Be

Let's Not Talking About Mowing the Lawn (Okay. I Mowed. Ugh). But Now It's Friday & I Can Feel Good That At Least That Chore is Done The problem with winter thawing is that the grass grows and with the sunlight on my house (with not much shade), it grows quickly and thick....

Let's Not Talking About Mowing the Lawn (Okay. I Mowed. Ugh). But Now It's Friday & I Can Feel Good That At Least That Chore is Done

A Cascade Poem from a Tuesday Event (Written on Tax Day) Which I Wrote About Yesterday. Putting a Bow on Another Grant for Now. Now to the Next One. I’m always thankful to learn a new poetic forms, and remain delighted to see how the formalities actually tighten language, structuring new ...

A Cascade Poem from a Tuesday Event (Written on Tax Day) Which I Wrote About Yesterday. Putting a Bow on Another Grant for Now. Now to the Next One.

Fascinating #VerseLove26 Prompt Yesterday - Tax Day Haikus. I Guess We All Do Have A Lil' Story to Tell...Bring on the 5-7-5 Yesterday was day one of the Dr. Karen Karbiener visit to Fairfield University and we started it with a community event at Lordship House i...

Fascinating #VerseLove26 Prompt Yesterday - Tax Day Haikus. I Guess We All Do Have A Lil' Story to Tell...Bring on the 5-7-5

Okay, Tuesday...Offer Some Grace. Monday Was a Doozy, But I'm Still Standing. Thankful for Ann E. Burg's Poetry Prompt colligagtedcrandall.blogspot.com/2026/04/okay...

And When There are No Breaks...No Down Time...You Carry On Anyway. Bring on the Bonanza of a Crazy Week After a Weekend with Little Personal Time colligagtedcrandall.blogspot.com/2026/04/and-...

And Just Like that It's the 12th of April. A Sunday Where the #VerseLove Traditions Continue & I Am Dreaming of Slower Days Ahead. Love this time of year when the neighborhood fox are funning between houses to find food for their kids. They are stunning  creatures and wh...

And Just Like that It's the 12th of April. A Sunday Where the #VerseLove Traditions Continue & I Am Dreaming of Slower Days Ahead.

To Whom It May Concerned. #VerseLove Continues. I'm Pacing Myself. Always Love the Month of Poetry & Transition to Spring. It's Saturday. What a week! What a month! What a semester. Congratulation to all the MidYork teams who made it to finals and to my alma mate...

To Whom It May Concerned. #VerseLove Continues. I'm Pacing Myself. Always Love the Month of Poetry & Transition to Spring.

Okay Friday, #VerseLove Continuing, Papers Needing to be Graded, No Classes to Teach, A Tremendous Desire to Unwind ... Humming Along colligagtedcrandall.blogspot.com/2026/04/okay...

Take a Phrase. Write It Down. Then, Explain the Phrase as a Poet Would. That Was Yesterday's Morning Challenge (Today, It's Trying to Wake Up) I was up by five. But for some reason, I kept trying to fall back to sleep. I succeeded and ended up waking at 7:30 rather groggy. This is w...

Take a Phrase. Write It Down. Then, Explain the Phrase as a Poet Would. That Was Yesterday's Morning Challenge (Today, It's Trying to Wake Up)

Well, the Anxiety Closet Opened Up and Unleashed While Trying to Sleep Monday Night. Guess the Last Few Weeks are Catching Up Of course, none of my streaming packages came with the UCONN/Michigan game, so I listened to is via online radio stations. I didn't make it ...

Well, the Anxiety Closet Opened Up and Unleashed While Trying to Sleep Monday Night. Guess the Last Few Weeks are Catching Up #verselove26

I Approached Day 6, #VerseLove26, in Anticipation of my Drive Back to Connecticut, Knowing I Wouldn't Have Much Laptop Time It is obnoxious, but I need to applaud my ability to listen to books in audio form. In fact, I might even say I prefer them this way because...

I Approached Day 6, #VerseLove26, in Anticipation of my Drive Back to Connecticut, Knowing I Wouldn't Have Much Laptop Time

Definitely Hitting the Gas Pedal and Returning to CT this Morning. April & May Responsibilities are Piling Up & I Have to Teach. Meanwhile. Another #VerseLove26 Poem Hoping all goes well with the home heath-care worker being hired to look after the parental units in their home a few hours a day. Today is ...

Definitely Hitting the Gas Pedal and Returning to CT this Morning. April & May Responsibilities are Piling Up & I Have to Teach. Meanwhile. Another #VerseLove26 Poem

It's Important for Everyone Who Has Internet Connection to Cheer on Their Internet Connection for a Second. I'm Just Saying. #VerseLove26 On Friday night, the cable, telephone, and internet went down. 24 hours later it still wasn't up and even after tradition in modems and rout...

It's Important for Everyone Who Has Internet Connection to Cheer on Their Internet Connection for a Second. I'm Just Saying. #VerseLove26 @GetSpectrum

Let's See If We Wake Up to Restored Internet When We Wake Up. Curious What Went Down with Spectrum. Ick-phrases #VerseLove26 Ate Varsity Pizza again after a long, long while. I'm happy to see it is still open on the hill, and it was nice to meet Melissa and her son...

Let's See If We Wake Up to Restored Internet When We Wake Up. Curious What Went Down with Spectrum. Ick-phrases #VerseLove26

Leilya Petra, a Colleague for Louisianna, Pitched #VerseLove26 Poem #2 Perfectly with a Prompt to Write About Everyday Small Things Poetry is funny, especially with #VerseLove because you never know what the prompt will be  when you wake up or what you might want to write...

Leilya Petra, a Colleague for Louisiana, Pitched #VerseLove26 Poem #2 Perfectly with a Prompt to Write About Everyday Small Things

Well, #VerseLove26, We're At It Again. A Poem a Day for 30 Days. Kicking Off This Year in Syracuse, But I'll Return to My Front Porch. Promise. Meals on Wheels. Price Chopper. Dog walks. Parental Naps. A Cinnamon Cake (Although he much prefers a pie...the kind of pie served at Cynde'...

Well, #VerseLove26, We're At It Again. A Poem a Day for 30 Days. Kicking Off This Year in Syracuse, But I'll Return to My Front Porch. Promise.

It's Officially April, #VerseLove, so Today Will End the Last Post Until My Poetic Shenanigans Cease in May. For Today, an Achievement I have to applaud Meals on Wheels. Daily, they arrive with a warm meal and a cold one every morning...the drivers are kind and gracious, the...

It's Officially April, #VerseLove, so Today Will End the Last Post Until My Poetic Shenanigans Cease in May. For Today, an Achievement

Extending Literacy with Pre-Service Teachers Asks Them to Think About Composing Stories for Their Future Students (I Began to Model Last Night) Early in the semester, I shared photographs of a wiffleball, seeds, varying teaching mentors and books, and classrooms I've been fortunate t...

Extending Literacy with Pre-Service Teachers Asks Them to Think About Composing Stories for Their Future Students (I Began to Model Last Night)

Although I Didn't Take Photos, I Found Others Who Have - Worlds Worst Shephard's Pie (Guaranteed to Feed Six)(Um...If You Like Shot-Glass Meals) It's always fascinating when you work all day on Saturday and Sunday and on-educators ask, "are you really grading all this time?" Well, yes...

Although I Didn't Take Photos, I Found Others Who Have - Worlds Worst Shephard's Pie (Guaranteed to Feed Six)(Um...If You Like Shot-Glass Meals)

A 4.5 Hour Return to Syracuse Had Me Craving a Childhood Favorite: Chocolate Chip Cookies. I Don't Think I've Made Such Cookies in Decades I finished The Status Game  by Will Storr and started Kendi's Chain of Ideas . Both men can write. Both men do their research. Both men, in ...

A 4.5 Hour Return to Syracuse Had Me Craving a Childhood Favorite: Chocolate Chip Cookies. I Don't Think I've Made Such Cookies in Decades

Well, I'll Need Another Tank of Gas Before I Depart, But All the School Goods Were Delivered: 8 Schools in One Day All the gift baskets were filled, copies of No Place  Like Home included, and I patterned out a circular drive from Stratford to Bridgeport ...

ll the School Goods Were Delivered: 8 Schools in One Day. And I'm Off Again.

A Brief Foo Foo Fee Dinner at Founder's House in Milford Before Reconfiguring Another Week Away from the Stratford Home I waited all day for one more package to arrive, only to find it was sent to the University in the afternoon, making it impossible to get ma...

A Brief Foo Foo Fee Dinner at Founder's House in Milford Before Reconfiguring Another Week Away from the Stratford

Here's to Advocates of Visual Thinking and Learning. Wonderful to Experience Temple Grandin in Action Last Night at the Quick Center. Dr. Pierre Orelus initiated the diversity lecture series under Dean Robert Hannafin in 2017. Each year, his committees seeks to bring a scho...

Here's to Advocates of Visual Thinking and Learning. Wonderful to Experience Temple Grandin in Action Last Night at the Quick Center.

And the 130 copies of James Bird's NO PLACE LIKE HOME are in My Possession. Now to Get Writing Tools & Notebooks into Schools Oof. The trees want to start destroying my sinus system. I had a pretty decent day of productivity and then, while teaching, the first burst...

And the 130 copies of James Bird's NO PLACE LIKE HOME are in My Possession. Now to Get Writing Tools & Notebooks into Schools

A Room Full of Students - More Hands - Make the Work Week Easier. Shouting Out to the Team of Extending Literacy Learners for Their Help This Evening. I needed to have 150 writers' notebooks assembled - six boxes of composition books with grant-focused stickers, and the students came to the...

A Room Full of Students - More Hands - Make the Work Week Easier. Shouting Out to the Team of Extending Literacy Learners for Their Help This Evening.

Well, It Rained. I Finished Applegate and Move to The Status Game by Will Stohr. Walked Karal and Temporarily Resettled The gray and rain is normal for March, I guess. Traffic was smooth, but on the backroads of the Berkeshires, getting behind Sunday drivers i...

Well, It Rained. I Finished Applegate and Move to The Status Game by Will Stohr. Walked Karal and Temporarily Resettled