Continued warnings: Long post, and a difficult one, especially in combination with Part One (found here.) If you’re still reading–thank you.
Two days earlier, as I cleared my desk and bookshelf, I was happy to find an old-fashioned booklet containing photographs of me when I was a toddler. About a year ago I took possession of [...]
This is the first installment of a three-part series. It’s about experiences my family and I had on and around Earth Day two months ago. Sorry it’s so late–writing it took a while. Readers be warned: not only do the posts run long but they get hot under the collar as I tell stories about [...]
About a week ago, I finally finished planting my garden. I ran late (as usual) setting out some seedlings and all three attempts to start my typical heirloom tomato lineup from seed ran afoul of greens-craving kittens and rough winds. So I bought hothouse starts, which as of this date are doing well, except for [...]
Jules Vincent (marvelously played by Steward Granger) is a happy-go-lucky French trapper making his living off some of the most dangerous country in Canada. He comes to town one day to replenish his supplies. While there, he rescues a kitten from a bad-tempered collie and an unhappy part-Chippewa woman (Cyd Charisse) from the saloon where [...]
Summer’s here.
Where snow petals blew
From winter orchards swallows’
Wings fledge summer light.
Over the last couple of years, my family’s home business has moved into reproducing public domain documents, movies, and other materials to sell on that juggernaut Ebay and, eventually, on our own website. Recently, I became more involved with writing auction descriptions for old films, some from as far back as the 30s. To save [...]
First off, frequent WIZ contributor Karen Kelsay invited me to submit poetry to her online poetry journal Victorian Violet Press, where I’m the featured poet for her summer issue. Victorian Violet Press also nominated “The Pear Tree” for a Pushcart Prize. Thanks, Karen!
You can hear me read “The Pear Tree” here.
Second: If you’re one of the [...]
Late this past winter, my son decided to build a bat box for our summer bat visitors to nest in. Bats, of course, are migratory creatures, flying south in late autumn for warmer climes in the tradition of many species of birds. A few articles I’ve read lately assert that, given the extent and effects [...]