Yes. This.
Paul Fleischman's Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. I'm not a poetry lover. I find the cadence with which many modern poets read their work to be stilted and too easily parodied. Most of my admiration in the world of verse goes to Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, and Jon Scieszka. What I like about Joyful Noise: all of the poems are about bugs! And the two-voice delivery is cool; some lines come together, some are spoken apart, and some overlap. A lot of the poems are cooperative, but "Honeybees" presents a fun dichotomy between a queen bee and a worker bee, who have very different levels of enthusiasm for being a bee. I'm making the book a Magik Must-Read for our January production of Diary of a Worm, a Spider, and a Fly. I'm also going to buy a copy for Magik's library because the poems would make great stage dialogues. And then I'm going to bribe two kids to do "Honeybees." :)
But Not This.
Waiting till tomorrow to eat the chocolate-cherry bread that's about to emerge from the oven.
Mayor of Nerdville
The intro from the most recent Freakonomics podcast:
"My eleven-year-old son, like every eleven-year-old boy in America, has the same three posters on his bedroom wall: Peyton Manning, Barack Obama, and Kai Ryssdal."
Shhh, Don't Tell...
...but when I went running at lunch and it was pouring rain and I passed two other runners huddling under a bridge, I felt superior. Real women run in the rain.
Question of the Day
xWhat kind of weather, if any, would keep you from exercising outside?
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