Hmmmm. Back to school. A topic fraught with pride, expectation, a little fear, and a sense of inevitablility. All I can convey to you is my experience from my not so typical perspective on the subject. Some background. My daughter Elizabeth and I are unusually close. I had her late in life, an only...
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While attending your average summer party, a rising college sophomore like myself will be asked the same two questions perpetually throughout the evening: One, “How was your first year at college?” and two, “are you excited to be going back to school?”. In an attempt to spare my acquaintance from the bursting floodgates of...
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Well, here I am ,writing again! I have learned to love writing, and I do not obsess over it. I hope people like what I write and want to read it, but, if they don’t what can you do! Obsessing over it isn’t going to make people read what I have to write or...
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• Maya has a constellation of beauty marks on her shoulder They seem gathered together subtly, they could be bolder • Her reserved non-talking stares and smiles confirm her happiness The cats are afraid of her, maybe they know more about the constellation • Is it a galaxy where life is filled with sunshine...
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For 13 years, I’ve made sure that my son’s birthday was celebrated big, spending weeks planning a theme party and fun activities for him and his friends. For his first birthday, we had the Singing Library Lady come to our house, play her guitar and sing “Wheels on the Bus,” “There Was an Old...
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It’s 2:06 on 202 in Flemington Heading north Life is short • A truck with marble Made in Spain Passes me Life is short • The tractor dealer’s parking lot is empty • The American Flags At the car dealerships Used to wave much larger Life is short ••• Books on Poetry at Amazon!
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When I left the workplace nearly two months ago for a life of leisure, I traded 9 to 5s for my own pace and priorities. No more bosses who expected more with less, no more stressful deadlines, no more stuffing the day full of grunt work until it finally burst like a balloon with...
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• Eleanor’s azalea is in bloom She planted it years before She could see it, from her sitting room • Aggie’s trees, for the most part are growing strong When I was I boy she would scold me for climbing on their arms She would try to convince me, that doing such was wrong...
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I called and asked about the war in Afghanistan, the oil spill in the gulf, Rand Paul and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, teachers being laid off, education in public schools, health care, unemployment, terrorism and the Greeding of America and was told someone would get back to me. May 20, 2010 ©...
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Friends of mine from college recently got together for a show. Marilyn, our social coordinator got us all together back in December, after about 25 years of not seeing each other as a group. The December reunion was great, so we have decided to try and do a quarterly gathering. So this Elvis Costello...
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