karen halvorsen schreck

three things I love: children’s literature, independent bookstores, and teachers and librarians who love the same, and who long, in spite of budget cuts, standardized testing, and technology fever, to expand the bound offerings (by this I mean books, of course) on their classroom shelves. a fourth thing I love:  Anderson Bookshop’s Children’s Literature Breakfast, [...]

this ash wednesday, as a lenten gift to myself and in honor of this Chicago weather,  I’m posting a poem–another by Rumi to which I said “hello” on first reading.  if you have a poem, or a snippet of a poem to share on reading this, please do post if you’re able. Be Melting Snow [...]