Several weeks ago I received a request via my husband’s blog. Students in Shirley’s 6th grade “Skills for Adolescence” class in Texas wanted to use my poems to make a school blog. I was thrilled. Unfortunately, I was unable to reach her with the coordinates she sent. Shirley if you read this, go for it.The same goes for other educators.

The main reason I wrote the poems and the attached teaching aids was to assist teachers and their students in exploring this critical issue. So yes, use them, explore them, improve upon them, add to them, make use of them as you see fit…just cite my name as the author. If it helps only one child deal with this issue then it was worth the effort.

I’d love to see the end result of this venture. Could you stay in touch via this blog, Shirley?

I really need a good cyber -bullying poem on this blog and I feel out of my depth. There’s a challenge for your students. If I approve yours I’ll post it under your name and you can track my readers response to it.

I am amazed at the response I have received to this blog. My husband told me that it was poor web-etiquette to quote your own stats. I don’t see this as bragging, but rather an indication of the pertinence of the issue I have chosen to discuss. Just today I received 267 hits on this blog. Over a 16 month period I have received 15,220 hits in all. Does that not say something? I am feeling inspired to write some new poems. It is what I can do and obviously a lot of people are responding…