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CLICK PHOTOS FOR A LARGER SIZE. At 10PM EST, Hillary Clinton was holding a three-point lead over Obama. Photos from the NY Times .

The "surge" notwithstanding, 2007 was the deadliest year in Iraq. A day-by-day chart compiled by American and Iraqi governments a...

Just ten days after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto,a murder that galvanized Pakistanis into grief and violent reactions, and cast immed...

Apropos of the new year, a poem by Polish poet, Wislawa Szymborska. THE CENTURY'S DECLINE Our twentieth century was going to improve on ...

In a 90-minute speech, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf denied that the military or intelligence community within his government was inv...

31. Hsien / Influence (Wooing) above TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE below KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN The name of the hexagram means "universal,...

Thanks to Sharon Brogan for the nudge - see a string of New Year's haiku at her blog , and add your own. The tradition continues here wi...

Question by Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister of Pakistan, upon his visit to Benazir Bhutto's gravesite. The full article is here . Mo...

This slide show is from the NY Times.

News reports from Pakistan and elsewhere confirm that 54-year-old Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Pakistan. The NY Times report...

Here's today's random draw from the I Ching: 59. Huan / Dispersion [Dissolution] Commentary below (from deoxy.org with gender-speci...

8:45am Eastern Time. Jacksonville, FL. Outside my window, the squirrel is holding a pecan in its gloved claws and chipping away at the husk....

Congrats to my fellow Scarlet Tanagers for the publication of issue two of The Sylvan Echo . Editors Mel Jones, Barbara Simpson, Andreanana ...

The prospect of merit pay in the teaching field is a can of worms. But it's an issue that continually pops up on the campaign trail, spa...

Earlier this week, I participated in the first International Poetry Reading and Reception at the community college where I work. I originall...

Up early this morning and skipping from (mostly poetry) blog to blog. Here's what I've found worth reading: On the benefits of repet...

I ran across one of those quickie blog ratings and put mine through the test. According to The Blog Readability Test , my blog is at the lev...

BLACK FRIDAY ten Mourning Doves flurry across the flagstones, dust-speckled wings, something god-like in their descent. A grey s quirrel sc...

Click image, feed your mind & feed others, grain by grain.

Nov. 5, 2007 Natural Surrounding The shrimp plant outside my window is a forest to the ants circling below, driven by innate regimen to surv...

Has anyone participated in the Genographic Project sponsored by National Geographic? If so, what kind of surprising results?

This National Geographic video traces the path of hominids, beginning around 195,000 years ago in the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia. It...

Starting the month with a haiku: Nov.2, 2007 Restless needle - thought winding in and out, a bee without honey. Uniform Days When we went Do...

Thanks to Julie R. Enszer who posted these two poems by Jane Cooper. Cooper was born in Jacksonville, FL, my hometown. Being Southern 1 It...

These strangers in a foreign world protection asked of me; befriend them, lest yourself in heaven be found a refugee. Caveat : Emily's ...

I've been working on an anthology of student writing - and emerged from the obsession of page formatting yesterday to recognize a strata...

well it sounds hokey even to me but when November rolls around, I recall the unfinished mss ("The Cottage") that I started a few y...

Obituary Jane M. Cooper, Poet, 1924-2007 Jane Marvel Cooper, poet, Professor and Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Sarah Lawrence College, died p...

"Om Mani Padme Hum" The Meditative Sounds of Buddhists Chants CD.