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Baby It’s Cold Outside–Again!
There have been so many versions of this song, but this version is my favorite. If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time you’ve probably seen this before. In fact I wrote about it both last year and the year before. And if you’d like to engage in the new fad of…
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Music Monday with Michael Buble
And if you haven’t been paying attention these last several years, it’s pronounced “BOO-blay,” so this post title kinda rhymes, and is sorta metrical, no? Well, I tried. It’s been a tough year in some ways, and a good year in others. My youngest son has had some health difficulties, but he is recovering. I’ve…
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Christmas poem to a man in jail by Charles Bukowski
This seasonal piece, which on the surface seems so mainly because of its title, speaks to various questions I’ve found myself discussing and pondering of late. Not just form versus free verse, commas and line endings, but the state of the world, and art’s place in it. Bukowski says here that poetry is getting better,…
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They Met for Coffee, the Two Women Everyone Said Would Love Each Other and Should Be Friends
Originally posted on Marilyn Rauch Cavicchia: We should do this again! they said, knowing full well that this would never happen. Who knows why some things catch fire? Who knows why some things don’t? Or worse, the little flare between two people that sparks and then dies, leaving someone inevitably embarrassed over what was said,…
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Poetry and Meaning, and Can a Poem Just Be?
“What exactly does this poem mean?” That’s the question someone just posted today on one of my YouTube readings from more than a year and a half ago. I’m glad those readings still get attention. I was recording a poem a day during National Poetry Month for a couple of years there, and between that…
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Haunted Porch Flashback
I am still too old fashioned to catch up with the Throwback Thursday craze, but since it’s Halloween on this Friday I’m in good shape for a haunted Flashback Friday! My boys and I used to have a tradition of decorating the porch and scaring the pee out of local kids on Halloween. Parents loved…
