Author Archives: thefriendlymoth

The Frog Hollow Blog has grown into a newsletter over at Substack, called A Few Crooked Words. There I’ll share weekly writing inspiration for parents and anyone who wants to help children love to write. Come join in the fun! Because even a few crooked words can be a poem.

The pandemic has my students, like most kids, stuck at home, but we’re still writing. We’ve been using our writing both to do the normal stuff like develop writing skills and express ourselves, and also to wrestle with the strangeness and worries of life this spring. Sometimes it helps just to write directly to what’sContinue reading “You Act Evil Like Voldemort: Corona Virus Conversation Poems”

I enjoy many, many things my students write, but every once in a while, one of them writes a poem that really strikes me. I’ll walk around thinking about it. I’ll want to tell it to everyone I know. This happens to me with all my favorite poems. I guess it’s just that some ofContinue reading “Dodo Birds and Orchids”