with gratitude to Ralph Waldo Emerson
The idea for this came from Emerson's 1837 address known as "The American Scholar" Ever the wind blows, Ever the grass grows. I took it a bit further here
Ted Mondale, the son of the man who served as Jimmy Carter’s vice president, eulogized the former president tod…
Dozens of face masks In varied sizes, materials, and co… Were shoved into a coffee can Over the course of the pandemic. Tossing them into the garbage toda…
Target: Sunshine State Idalia’s in the Gulf. It’s time to prepare.
We might think that COVID is fi… Thirty months since it first came… The president declared the pandemi… Let us fervently pray he’s not wro… The vaccines were designed to help…
Decades of touring For millions of fans. Bruce, reassuring The best that he can. But he doesn’t know
Checks and balances Ensure that no president Can ever be king
At the confirmation Of her nomination To serve our nation There was celebration And righteous jubilation
Ron DeSantis is A foul combination of Gaston and LeFou.
It starts off at the lighthouse at the eastern tip of the island and continues all along Periwinkle… Shell Island Beach Club Sea Winds Cottage
Several years ago I encountered a… idling away as it waited to pick u… at a community center in suburban… I walked past the bus and observed its large exhaust pipe spewing
When I was a kid in the 1970s When there were two types of gas a… Regular and Unleaded. The Unleaded kind cost more, So most people used Regular inste…
In 1980, the 12 year-old that I o… purchased a 45 RPM single of “Em… So much of the world from back the… is gone, and will not be coming ba… But at least the Glimmer Twins ar…
Thanks, Bob, for making us laugh In your calm and cerebral fashion. Other performers would shout and c… But you had a different way to cas… Comedy albums are a thing of the p…
That Bruce is really something el… Making me drive all the way to Da… And on the Fourth of July, even! Had to miss the family barbecue an… My Uncle’s been kind of a jerk to…
This poem stays in my pocket Until I take it out And read it to somebody That’s what this day’s about. Thanks for listening to my words