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It’s been a busy week with many activities.We had gymnastics on Saturday; visited a farm with friends Autumn and Clay Monday afternoon, and then checked out cousin Sean’s play that evening. Tuesday morning Aidan and I continued building and painting a Pinewood Derby car that we started a while back. He enjoyed working the Dremel [...]

I’ll be teaching poetry writing for the first time in the fall, so I need to consider what I’ll ask the students to read. Beyond a collection of poetry, I wanted a kind of textbook, but not a textbook, if you know what I mean. I’m thinking about Ted Kooser’s Poetry Home Repair Manual. It [...]

Here I’m experimenting with a little creative photography–the zoom burst. Chris was a reluctant subject here, but she’s a pretty good sport about it. I’m not sure what I think about this effect. After a little trial and error, it seems that 1/6s was the ideal exposure length to allow simultaneous zooming. I had to [...]