March 8, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – March
“Rhymes can make sense of the world in a way that regular speech can’t.” Hip hop mogul Jay-Z (Sean Carter) says it better than I can. It’s no coincidence that […]
June 22, 2009
Sun Break
In an 1856 letter to Emerson, Whitman wrote, “As for me, I love screaming, wrestling, boiling-hot days.” Those days haven’t yet arrived — at least not in the Berkshires, where […]
May 26, 2009
They Weren’t Booing, They Were Shouting “Muldoon!”
But for a badly timed heart attack — and the suspicion that if a Bainbridge Island swimming pool (now sand garden) hadn’t gotten him, something else would have — Theodore […]