please skip to next week’s Torah portion. I don’t want to give anything away. Frogs rain out of the sky. It’s Biblical. (Or it’s a rare meteorological event that imagining frogs in Pharaoh’s underwear ...

Pamela Harold, 75, of Edmonds, likes to write about what she knows and what she’s seen. That means stories about road trips, letters about family and poems about green tree frogs inside kitchen sinks.

To the editor:This is a poem my grandson, Austin Wicker, age 13, wrote. He can say it from memory. I wish I could. I thought when it's hot and the frogs are speaking out at night you might see its ...

Finally, there are signs of spring. So we’re beginning this roundup of children’s picture books with two by St. Paulite Sarah Nelson that celebrate parks and frogs. What better topics to remind us of ...

English teachers and students know they will have to deal, at some point, with the dreaded P-word: poetry. Too often those classroom discussions begin with two pained questions: “Why do we have to ...