Wade in the water....

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My love affair with blue water

…and I have promises to keep (a poem)….

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Virginia Founders were patriotic, and more....

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Book review: “Forced Founders” by Woody Holton

The so-called Founding Fathers weren’t the only ones who helped to shape our independence….

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The "tyranny of the majority"....

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“If men were angels…”

The wisdom of James Madison, who was no fan of “democracy”….

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That kid on the beach....

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“Sara from South Dakota”: a poem

A kid in love with the ocean….

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The melting pot thing....

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U. S. population growth is slowing

…but the shift to more ethnic diversity is increasing….

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Kids could ask the darnedest questions....

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Same questions, different answers….

Anticipating the kids’ questions on the Charles River tour, my poem….

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Abraham Lincoln, the visionary....

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“…corruption in High Places…”

Old Abe got it right….

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An American Indian leader

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Book review: Joseph Brant and His World

A Mohawk leader who helped shape the world shared by his people and colonists in the 18^th century….

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Listening to the sea....

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The sea….just listen….

My poem about the silence of the sea

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Who wanted democracy?

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Book review: The American Revolution: A History

The Founders weren’t real keen on “democracy”….

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Stepping out for the long journey

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The wisdom of Samuel Butler (part 2)

The longest journey: get started….

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Yearn, my heart.

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Movin’ on….

….my poem about doin’ it my way….

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Speak truth to Trump

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The Peaceful Resistance Army

Speaking truth to Trump….

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"...back eddies of the world..."

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The wisdom of Samuel Butler

A cultured condemnation of higher education

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A wolf knows....

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My haiku about partnership in the animal world

Stayin’ alive…

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"All they do is talk...."

Book review: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

A book that makes language an erogenous zone….

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An impulse of the eye....

Worlds, whirling, waiting….

I whirl and stretch to the horizon….

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Guess who wasn’t coming to dinner….

Not too many black doctors actually showed up for dinner in 1967….

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How to buy a top post in Trump administration

Trump is surrounding himself with rich and powerful people….

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the madding crowd....

The madding crowd….

The Earth’s human population is up 6.4 billion in the last 200 years….this growth rate is going to stop….

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That shell at Bethany Beach

On finding a shell at Bethany Beach

You’ve seen one like this, the one that isn’t “just” a shell….

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Book review: The New England Poets

Book review: An Anthology of the New England Poets

Almost 35 poets, spanning 340 years, with rich bios of these iconic scribblers….

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We said "Revolution," the British said "sugar islands"....

Book review: An Empire Divided

by Andrew O'Shaughnessy

King George and his ministers wanted the Caribbean sugar islands more than they wanted the 13 colonies….

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“…make no unsettling sound…”

A poem: it was a joy to see what I always see, in a new way….

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Toil and trouble….and craziness

Toil and trouble….and craziness

My book review of The Witches: Salem, 1692….a community gone crazy….

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You can hear immensity tapping....

My review of Jane Hirshfield’s poem “Tree”

Listen….you can hear immensity tapping….

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Book review: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Book review: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

My review of this Larson thriller, the consistent tension that makes it a page-turner….

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Rick Subber's poetry

Chant de mer

A poem about listening to the sound that needs no ear….

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Book review: A Tale of Two Cities

An intense love story, and a swirl of characters you’d really like to meet….

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Another poetry heard from….(part 9)

Naomi Shihab Nye offers some deft strokes in her poetry, and I’d like to tell you about one of them….

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Book review: To Serve Them All My Days

A story of completely decent people living a sincerely good life at a boys’ school.

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Listening to the kids….

They won’t remember, but I will….

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Lafayette: a hero, not a saint

Book review: Lafayette, by Harlow Unger

Lafayette was a great man. Also rich and lucky.

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You could live on Coke….

….for a little while....

A retail tax on sugary beverages makes sense.

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Après-midi des enfants

Après-midi des enfants

My poem about the kids, in the afternoon, in the water….

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Book review: An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

The British wanted to win the Revolutionary War, but they had good reasons for not trying too hard….

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Understanding the “o” word

“Old” is a highly charged word. A poem about the process of aging and being aged, without using the “o” word:

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Book review: All The President’s Men

It’s a one-of-a-kind story, but your kids aren’t going to ask you to read it to them twice.

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Poetry alive!

A poet can bring the darnedest things to life. Want the big word? anthropomorphic

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“…the hollow men…” and so on….

“…the hollow men…” and so on….

I respectfully think that T. S. Eliot’s poetry is a bloomin’ wasteland….

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Book review: The Reader (Der Vorleser)

In war, condemnation and compassion can be so intermingled that understanding, and peace, is not possible.

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Music of the stones

My poem about harmonies that endure….

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Book review: The Bartender’s Tale

It ain’t This House of Sky, but it’s a keeper for Ivan Doig fans. You’ll know these people.

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“Boil up” and other good manners….

The “Hobo Ethical Code” is worth a quick read.

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Mr. Grumpy (235 years ago)

William Pitt the Younger had nothing nice to say about the American Revolutionary War.

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A west wind kind of thing….

Be open to the grace….my poem for that kind of feeling

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