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in grade 12 with my oral presentation of his “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”, this was a first year university text which opened up his full poetic achievements and made me desire even more to become a poet.Below: the … Continue reading →

The classic homage by Alfred, Lord Tennyson to his college friend Arthur Hallam.This 1897 edition was beautifully illustrated by Harry Fenn.

Now being mowed down on sidewalks and in quiet neighborhoods. When T. S. Eliot said the world would end with people killing each other in the streets, I don’t think envisioned this iteration.

Glad it’s not an electric!

(CNN headline)Man who shot Reagan is now posting love songs onlineNew Day John Warnock Hinckley Jr. spent 35 years in a psychiatric hospital after shooting President Reagan in 1981.

duking it out. The fragrant perfume of lilacs and the equally memorable rotting smell of mountain ash flowers.

this morning, “I would have bankrupted myself the way Alberta shut down the economy.”

as she walked on a sidewalk.If you can’t walk safely on a sidewalk, then times are really tough.This kind of dopey irresponsibility and lack of self-control is why MADD came to be.

Scientists estimate we consume 44 lbs of plastic on average in a lifetime.

It’s been a while. Recent movies have tended to be loud, formulaic, pre-advertised (trailers usually give away all of a film’s essentials), very commercial, flawed, dumb, crass, pointless, and geared toward What Faulkner called “the glands” and the lowest common … Continue reading →