Sara Holbrook author/poet/educator
February 27, 2009
Maybe the sun was out that day. Or maybe Dennis Cox looked at me at lunch. Or maybe that was one of the 47 days I was dismissed early to have my braces adjusted. Probably it was a lesson that my teacher presented more than once, but drizzled out my ear after
February 12, 2009
Leave it to the first grade to sum it all up. People write books about the hows, whats, and whys of poetry. I know. I have. But here the first graders at Skano Elementary, Albany, NY summed it up and their teacher recorded the whole business about poetry on one
February 12, 2009
Teachers may indeed sometimes sing the blues, but when they are accompanied and led by teacher/musician Ted DeMille, the songs are bound to lift the spirit. Colorado Council of the IRA is one of the most happenin’ state conferences of the year and I was lucky enough to be invited to present there last
February 2, 2009
Thirty nine and sunny in Cleveland in January after how many days below freezing (?) is beautifully balmy. We were outside soaking up the vitamin D yesterday and I am still on the uplift from all that sunshine. I had just read a reminder in my cousin Debbie’s 25 random facts on facebook and made
January 29, 2009
Big assembly on Friday: Grades 3-8.
When Principal Milissa Dachisen showed me the schedule week before last (had I agreed to that? Had I (gasp) even suggested it? What was I thinking???), I kind of gulped. I admit it. I was afraid. We were going to write on Monday and Friday and have a show
January 11, 2009
Oh, yeah. The world is exploding, the stock market is sending out depth charges, and I’m going to be HOW old in 2009? Right. THIS is the year I am going to start believing in fortune cookies. I lost my voice on the New Jersey turnpike somewhere between Kean University and Kelly’s house, I have
January 4, 2009
The publishing world is in scale down mode, near to lockdown. Editors and production people are loosing their jobs and major players are not accepting any manuscripts. I suspect this means manuscripts by lesser known authors than say Stephen King, which leaves 99% of authors in a funk.
It’s important to remember that
January 1, 2009
Out of the mouths of babes. Sara Kelly has the typical repertoire of songs for a two year old: Twinkle Twinkle, a dozen Wiggles tunes, the Pick Up song (sort of spooky, sing two notes of it and she starts to pick up toys robotically) and Happy Birthday. Kelly took this video
November 16, 2008
In Scotty’s Egypt, there is a fire station, a hotel, a factory where people work, a garage and a sea food restaurant.
The hotel has a pool and a diving board (with ladder) and the town has a lake with a dock to stand
November 10, 2008
In Egypt the hieroglyphics are like, everywhere. I mean the Ancient Egyptians had a lot to say. After someone stumbled on the Rosetta Stone, 20th century scholars could translate these pictures into Greek. Since I can’t read hieroglyphics or Greek, I took to making up my own translations and decided each of these series
