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A Poem for a Thursday #22
Photo by Aaron Mello on Unsplash Emily Dickinson lived in Amherst, Massachusetts in relative isolation for most of her life. Much of her interaction with others depended on correspondence. Only a few of her approximately 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime and those were edited to fit in with the poetic conventions of the day. Her poems frequently have short lines, lack titles, and use unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Dickinson was as unconventional as her poems and now, 130 years or more after her death, has a devoted following. Dear March – Come in – How glad I am – I hoped for you before- Put down your Hat- You must have…
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In Defense of Laura Ingalls Wilder
I have always loved Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. I read them over and over as a child and still occasionally reread them now. Both my children read and loved them. Now, society as a whole is telling me that Wilder is “problematic.” I just read yet another comment on a blog post saying that the books are too problematic to be read to children these days. I have issues with that. There are a few specific reasons why Wilder is being labeled as such and I will address those in a minute but first, let’s talk about the problems with deciding that anyone and any book that doesn’t…
