Ping, bam, slam, bab, slap!         Ping! Oh, if you ping one more time I’ll bap your lights out. You pinball machine, or should I say pingball machine? Ping!

I wish I could fly right over the ocean, right over my home, and beyond my state. I wish I could fly, but every morning I wake from my dreams I’m in my same old bed.

I’m going downtown in Manhattan! Of course, it will be crowded and if I ask for directions, people will say, “No. Too bad, Yah yah. Not my Problem. Go to the Help Desk. Nah, forget it.” (People aren’t very nice sometimes.) And it will be noisy with all the cars going beep, honk, zip, screeech, [...]

Water Blue by Maya Van Londen water, cold, warm, rising, cooling down, warming up, goes in goes out– moving around, going in, going out, sometimes quiet, ocean

By Maya Van Londen Brownie What is brown and white all over? It’s funny when he stares at me from the door. Brownie Boy…how he likes to run in clovers. He likes to tap dance on the floor…sometimes he dances to the door! When ever we leave he cry’s like a baby. He has the [...]

We honor Rosa’s braveness and her courage to change unjust laws. We will miss her even though I never met her. She is the mother of the Civil Rights Movement because she refused to be treated with disrespect.

By Maya Van Londen November 2005 One night I was walking home alone. Suddenlty I heard footsteps behind me. I turned and…Ouch!! i tripped and fell. The footsteps came closer and closer. I could see my breath. I felt dread. Then fingernails as heavy as lead and a cape as black as death touched my [...]

I am in San Diego, CA. Ther are lots of bay s and parks and spaces to roam and birds of all kinds. Seems like it’s just me and my mom here. There are lots of sounds like chattery little birds and fish jumpting out of the water catching bugs. I love it here I [...]

We saw lots of these on the beach…What are they? Thank you to John Brofy, our former neighbor, for answering the mystery question. This is of the brown algae of the kelp family. What you see on the beach is one of the blades which has broken off of the main plant–the plants grow from [...]

By Maya Van Londen Palm tree in the sun. It droops when the day is done. In the morning; fun! And Do you like Haiku? I love Haiku; do you, too? Haiku, Haiku, Dude!

By Maya Van Londen. Sonnets have this rhyming structure abab cdcd efef gg (couplet). Oregon Caves art has perfect texture; it captures my taste. As slippery as it was we still had fun all along. As we traveled through the cave it was wet so we went a slow pace. The cave walk made us [...]

Monday is a “school day” but Maya smiles a big one when she says she’ll do her math later. She’d rather work with her rock collection, look for lizards, and read Harry Potter.

By Maya Van Londen The Meadow House. The Meadow House is fun. The Meadow House is grand. The Meadow House is beautiful. The Meadow House has everything, everything you imagined. The Meadow House, The Meadow house I love. Thank you. Thank you Meadow House!. I love the snakes, the river, the paths the grass, the [...]

What is happening in this picture?

Daisy was lazy in a maze called amazing. A moth had a cloth which he shared with a sloth in a bog.

Challengers glide across the highways over hills through rainforests. Jaycos shimmer in the moonlight at the beach on a spectacular night. Senecas shine in the sunset in San Diego.

Mom wrote down what I said I saw at the beach to help me figure out what to write a haiku about: driftwood ocean bank thousands of little rocks birds fluttering on the ground clouds spectacular, marshmellows, fluffy pillows, soft bed seagulls white and gray eating little bugs Three dragonflys just caught my eye…four, five, [...]

Here are my drawings from Seattle. Space needle with large round balls in front. We are family poster using eraser technique. Detail of the eraser technique, which I learned about at the Seattle Art Museum’s African American Artists exhibit.

We went to the Space Needle in Seattle. It’s 51 stories high. We ate lunch in there. The top were the tables are spins. It was cool!

By Maya Van Londen The ocean sparkles. Sparkles catch my amazed eyes. That’s what makes me cry.

Today we went on a long and exhausting trip to Bellevue, Washington. It took about 95,000 hours (not!). Then when we finally got here we got to eat pizza, sit in the hottub and play in the pool. I made some new friends from Canada. They are also homeschooling. But the driving around part was [...]

My Brother and Mom and I all went to OMSI. In OMSI there was a ball room which showed aerodynamics. We got to watch The Mistery of the Nile in the iMax theater; it’s a theater surrounding you on the ceiling and the walls in front of you and behind you. It was scary! In [...]

I miss everybody at school. Life in the RV is great but I still which I could be back home. Please write back even if you are new at school, please write. Register then check your email for the password. Once you’ve logged in with the password, you can leave a post. (My mom will [...]