We are here for what amounts to a few hours, a day at most. We feel around making sense of the terrain, our own new limbs, Bumping up against a herd o…
My brother Ted recently read this poem to our 85 year old mother and he reported that "when I was done she had tears in her eyes." I can see why. Abso…
From Jonathan Rauch, comes this... I like the tone of the President's press conference on the debt-limit negotiations. It had the right mixture of adm…
Admittedly, I haven't watched many of Conan O'Brien's shows but I still admire him as a talented comedian and a guy that's very inventive in his craft…
1. MaryAnn is a great driver and doesn't need any help from me putting on the passenger side imaginary brakes or adding sounds from me to the sights i…
From Andrew Sullivan, comes this... There have been many times over the past two years when I have whacked the Obama administration on their "fierce u…
This poem was posted by Andrew Sullivan, honoring the 2 slain photojournalists in Libya. For me, I think it also applies to the people of AL and the s…
I wake up almost every night for a period of an hour or so, grab my i-something and check e-mail, download a Rachel Maddow podcast, get a drink of wat…
I wrote this poem for Sherry when she turned 50. It was hard to find photos of her without me in them. She had my back. My world, the world, is a bett…
