The Drift Record

It's been a long time since I posted here at The Drift Recor d, spending most of my blog-time over at Books Around the Table  ( m...

Naomi Shihab Nye A little over a year ago, I posted this poem by Naomi Shihab Nye after hearing that she had been chosen to deliver th...

Happy Birthday, Lee Bennett Hopkins!   Today is the birthday of poet and anthologist-extraordinaire Lee Bennett Hopkins. To celebra...

Illustration by Belarusian Artist Anna Silivonchik Over at Books Around the Table this week, I wrote about the extraordinary fact ...

What a bomb cyclone looks like from the sky...  Out here on the Left Coast, we've heard about the winter storms hitting New Englan...