Birthday weekends are the best! Enjoy them all with verve and zest…
How shall I remember 2023, this fifty-sixth year of my life? Hopefully not the worst of the bun… but it did have some measure of st… My catalytic converter was stolen
Even on a bad day where the rain is falling and traffic barely moves and everyone thinks I’m a jerk I know that the sun will shine aga…
Your poetry book from 1946 was recently acquired by me at a book fair in Chicago. It appears to have been lightly us… during its first go-round
Sweet Home Chicago The birthplace of the new pope Who saw that coming?
The world I grew up in meaning the late 20th Century had white stuff falling from the s… on December days like this one. The kid that I was at the time
It’s Julie’s birthday The beginning of her next Trip around the sun May this day be exciting and the start of something great
That the ear hears something but the eyes and the brain can’t sort it all out will forever be a problem for me.
No more smarmy voice No more befuddled face No more Tucker Carlson Fox is in a better place
Leaves are changing color A cool nip is in the air Winter is on the horizon But we aren’t yet there
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…
Making myself write As I’m doing this moment Isn’t a bad thing
May everyone have, at least once in their lifetime, an experience where they are drivi… or riding in a car that they like
A limerick is a snappy rhyme That doesn’t take up too much time Make Line 3 sound like Line 4 And then just add one more The result is a poem sublime
The governor of Florida at 44 years of age is threatening to unleash an endless supply of rage At those he considers as “woke”
