Poet’s Corner – Canopy of Colors
Flying within the light of orange A bright red cardinal Shows crimson. Slow autumn drives Reveal colors reserved for the season. Canopy of [...]
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Like a Rolling Stone – A Memoir by Jann S. Wenner
A review of Jann Wenner’s memoir, including parts of his conversation with Bruce Springsteen at the 92Y. “…The truly subversive [...]
French Fairy Tales – By Forward Thinking Women
Based on a Smithsonian Associates lecture by Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman and my own research. Most people, the hosts declare, [...]
Poet’s Corner – Thread of Perfection
What a blessing are the seasons.Summer rainsSwift pourOver as it begins.Whispering into trees and plants.Smelling like honeydew on its [...]
The Couple at Number 9 – Who Is Buried in the Garden?
Saffron Cutler and her boyfriend, Tom, have just moved into a cottage that once belonged to her grandmother, Rose. With the couple [...]
Shy-The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
“Au fond,” as Mary Rodgers might say, she was about as shy as Princess Winifred= NOT. (Once Upon a Mattress) Daughter of musical [...]
Joe Calderone’s Novel Don’t Look Back – Were the Deaths of 343 Firefighters on 9/11 Preventable?
For New Yorkers who were in the city on that beautiful fall day, September 11, 2001, the events that transpired are seared into their [...]
The Poet’s Corner – The Promise
The old tree stood marked with two great slashes of an orange X. Insect- riddled and storm torn, sucha lean to it that leaves trailed [...]
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