BY ELISE CHIDLEY Three miles on a dusty, bone-rattling road to school. When the potholes punched holes in the tires, we would pull over. My mother, with her long red fingernails, would expertly deal with jacks and spares on the stony shoulder while we kids looked out over the valley to the hillside shacks made […]
By Amanda Parrish Morgan April is National Poetry Month, and every year to mark the occasion, my kids’ elementary school does a poetry unit. I wish there were more opportunities for poetry in the elementary school classroom, but I’m so grateful for this stretch they have each spring. It’s a time of year when student […]
