Fairy Tales and Feeding Tubes*
Sean MurphyThe brief experiment with the feeding tube was sufficiently impractical and unsavory that it seemed a small, if conflicted victory when we agreed to discard the apparatus. “So just call…
Finding Grace in Beautiful Places
In a piece I recommend you reading @ the reliably awesome Rumpus, writer Amber Sparks, a non-believer, discusses matters of faith, spirituality and art (check it here). The piece is entitled "Seeking…
When I have fears that I may cease to be…* (Revisited)
I. Til Love and Fame to nothingness do sink When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high…
Whispered Words (Revisited): For Holly
(2009) How long will it take? I did not ask, because I wanted to make every second count. It would be over quickly enough; it was already happening entirely too…
One Small Step for Man’s Mind
Check it out: there are people who actually believe that the moon landing never happened. Lots of people. Not that it didn’t happen, necessarily, but that it was an elaborate,…
With You There To Help Me: Cheerio To An Old Teacher (Revisited)
Shortly after 2011 began, I noted the unhappy occasion of Gerry Rafferty's passing and did my best to articulate (and celebrate) what his work meant to me (original post here).…
Memorial Day*
I. I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive Cyrus has never actually discussed his brief stint in the army that took him to Vietnam. On a couple of occasions…
Every Day is Mother’s Day (Revisited)
I’m fortunate, in a sense, to be the type of person that gets more sentimental about the times I read a certain book or heard a particular album than I…
A Joyful Noise
This is not the first dog/soldier reunion video I've seen. It may not even be the best one (though they are all wonderful in their way). But it is probably…
Dick Clark, R.I.P.
This is the face I remember, and the one I'll recall most fondly. It's nice to see the ones when he (impossibly) looked even younger or the ones where he…