August 18 is Bad Poetry Day, a day to celebrate verse or prose that someone, somewhere, considers inferior, unwarranted, or nasty.   I don’t believe there are such things as ‘bad’ poems. Yes, there poems that are naïve or juvenile, certainly immature, or undeveloped, just as there are misguided, pompous, or overly-technical poems. There is a […]

Every once in a while, our lives are blessed by a soul who brightens this planet. Yesterday we lost one of those people whose talent brought joy to generations, and a voice that will sing on. No doubt we all have read stories over the past days about who Aretha Franklin was, and have heard […]

Boundaries, property lines, convictions, reservations, delays. REGULATIONS. Morals or manners? TIME. Which is yours, what is mine? QUESTIONS and answers. RULES without rhyme, or reason, or EXCUSES. Basic human rights; sink or swim, fight or flight. WHERE do you stand, WHAT will you say? WHICH line will you cross today? 08/16/2018                                         j.g.l.