Tales From Shangri-La

" Nirvana " by Charles Bukowski, read by Tom Waits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVzCURucaA http://talesfromshangri-la.blo...

This is one of the most famous of Kipling's works -- and one of my most favorite poems. It explains what character looks like in daily l...

Love these two pretty songs about real, grown up romance. Remember When -- Alan Jackson Something That We Do -- Clint Black

Nothing subtle about Dickens. Charles Dickens and the linguistic art of the minor character. 

This poem was written by Walt Whitman for Abraham Lincoln at his death. I read it at the funeral of my grandfather, a retired Navy Captain a...

...written and read by Robert Frost -- read when he was an older man. Whose woods these are I think I know

The only footage of Mark Twain known to be in existence "Thomas Edison once said, 'An average American loves his family. If he ha...

Reading fiction is good for you. http://blog.theliteracysite.com/how-reading-fiction-improves-intelligence/?utm_source=twc-twcfan&utm_...

David sent this along to me today -- sensible reasons and practical ways for all students to read and study the classics -- even business ma...

Even the workaday and practical arm Becomes all love for love's sake to the lover. If this is nature's thrift, love thrives on it...

My sister-in-law sent me this poem, and I love it. My Grandparents’ Generation by  Faith Shearin They are taking so many things w...

"After a hundred reads, familiarity with the text verges on memorisation – the sensation of the words passing over the eyes like cud th...

Here's a link to a kickstarter campaign for a young friend of ours, Allison Mattox. She is a believer and an actress in Los Angeles. S...

A letter to a gifted prep school friend Dear Friend, You are caught up in a hundred little deaths of your soul these days. You are force...

for Sarah She of the soft brown hair Bright brown eyes Math problem sighs Puppy dog highs Pink lip gloss She of the cartwheels, Han...

Liquid fur Flows, crossing concrete and curb Streaming through green grass Silky, threading disaster Needling cars, boys, and falling ...

McCloskey is the writer of Caldecott-winning children's books from decades ago. I loved them as a child and my children loved them, too....

A narrow fellow in the grass  BY  EMILY DICKINSON A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him—did you ...

The Pasture I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water cl...

"Loveliest of Trees" LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland r...