Sara Holbrook author/poet/educator
February 22, 2008
“Everybody take out a piece of paper and something to write with.” So begins the writing workshop. Michael and I conducted about 20 workshops at JIS Middle — lots of students, lots of pens on paper. Some of the poems I never heard because the writers were too shy to share. Others flew by
February 22, 2008
A couple of traveling poets might be a little wary about an assembly at 7:30 AM on Monday morning under any circumstances. The kick off assembly at JIS Middle School followed a long weekend, a holiday to celebrate Chinese New Year. And just as Michael and I had vacationed in Bali for the weekend,
February 21, 2008
“Don’t breathe as you pass by.”
The sun searches for landing pads on the jungle floor, hopping from leaf to leaf. Dawa has picked a small white flower and explained it is used for eye wash, cautioned us not to touch another broad leaf plant because the surface is covered with fine skin
February 21, 2008
Whatever happened on super Tuesday?Has another snow storm hit Cleveland?Is our house still standing?Do I have everything in order for school next Monday?
Thoughts of elsewhere dart into my mind like now you see ‘em now you don’t geckos. Not the geckos on commercials who casually offer tea and jam with insurance quotes, but
February 21, 2008
I’m three weeks behind in blogging and over flowing with images and notes about our trip to SE Asia. Like a series of red roofed pagodas, Jakarta Airport sits surrounded by palm leaves and blossoming trees. Another American on board shows us how to scoot through the process of purchasing visas and before we
February 2, 2008
Check out the Hello Kitty lounge for girls and the video game lounge for boys. Please also ch
eck out how calmly the kids are playing. We have been traveling 20 + hours and have 4 or 5 more to go — if we totally understood the time changes, it would make calculating
January 31, 2008
I forget when I first dreamed of being a writer. I’ve always being a note taker. One of my earliest writing recollections was when the principal came over the loud speaker while I was in math class and announced that President Kennedy had been shot. This was before there was a TV in every classroom
January 29, 2008
“How much does this CAT scan cost?” I asked the lady with the clipboard. “I have no idea. Please complete the form on both sides.”“I mean an idea. Ball park. Say if I didn’t have insurance.”“Don’t forget to sign and date the form. I really don’t know.”“Oh.”“How much does this cost?”
January 25, 2008
“A clock is a ticking thief
stealing life daily, taking it unnoticed,
so that without love and constancy
life is nonetheless just fleeting deception.”
Abai
Do you think now that (for the most part) we have taken the tick out of clocks and replaced the relentless
January 24, 2008
At the open air market place, some vendors keep candles in their vegetable cases to keep the cucumbers from freezing. That’s how cold it is. Imagine doing your marketing outdoors at minus 20F. We did visit a couple of modern malls, but couldn’t afford anything there. In fact it was at the Green Market,