Culture
Celebrate Kwanzaa
What is Kwanzaa?
Sources: Wikipedia, National Museum of African American History, https://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org
What Is Kwanzaa?
Kwanzaa is an annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26th to...
Culture
Fun Christmas Facts
Source: Sarah Jubb, https://www.happybeds.co.uk/blog/author/sarah-jubb
Cover Photo by Jamie Street
People have been sending Christmas cards since 1843
In England,1843, the custom of sending Christmas cards began....
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
By E.E.Cummings
little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little
you are more like a flower
who found you in the green forest
and were you...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
The Oxen
By Thomas Hardy
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
“Now they are all on their knees,”
An elder said as we sat in...
Arts & Lifestyle
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Otherwise
By Jane Kenyon
I got out of bed
on two strong legs.
It might have been
otherwise. I ate
cereal, sweet
milk, ripe, flawless
peach. It might
have been otherwise.
I...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
A Blessing
By James Wright
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Starlight
By Philip Levine
My father stands in the warm evening
on the porch of my first house.
I am four years old and growing tired.
I...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Lobocraspis griseifusa
By Ted Kooser
This is the tiny moth who lives on tears,
who drinks like a deer at the gleaming pool
at the edge...