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A Song for Rain and Pictures from Rain Forests of the World
Anyway, on our recent vacation to San Francisco, Kellie, Sarah, and I visited the California Academy of Sciences. A primary exhibit at...
Jul 12, 20223 min read


Now, I Can Tell You Where I Have Been: San Francisco
Eight days ago, I wrote that I would tell you why I was not going to be writing anything for at least a week. The reason is that I have...
Jul 11, 20224 min read


New Pictures: Don't Have Any New Writings
Anyway, it has been a very busy week. Summer term I at ASUMH ended on Wednesday, so I had a deluge of grading Monday, Tuesday, and the...
Jul 3, 20224 min read


A Finished Poem (They are never really finished.) from the Draft that You Saw Last Week
Before I present the poem to you, I wanted to tell you about some interesting stuff that I ran across as part of my research to finish...
Jun 25, 20223 min read


A Blah, Blah Blog with a Very Scary Face
Anyway, I was walking my dog Luna out at the Fulton County fairgrounds the other day when I looked up in the sky, and this evil-looking...
Jun 20, 20223 min read


A Poem from about Fifteen Years Ago on Our Fifteenth Anniversary
Poem for Kellie I have mortgaged my life, and I’ve wasted my time. I’ve made many decisions with no reason nor rhyme. I have valued my...
Jun 10, 20221 min read


Kellie's Late Evening Pictures, Some Pictures of Flowers, and a Cool Poem about Spiders and Roses
Anyway, Kellie and I have been wandering around in the yard or sitting on our patio quite a bit here lately about dusk, and the other...
Jun 1, 20222 min read


The Suffering Artist and a Picture of a Daisy
Anyway, Kellie took this picture of a rain-mottled daisy while we walked in the city park the other day. I do not know what it has to do...
May 29, 20223 min read


Okay! Back to Literary Stuff! And...uh...Some Pictures of Flowers
Anyway, the weed flowers or the ‘accidentals” are nearly gone from the yard here on the day that marks the beginning of my fifty-sixth...
May 21, 20224 min read


More May Flowers and Another Old Poem Blooming Again
Anyway, we start off today with a close up of some flowers on a bush that I have no memories of what it was called, but it was purchased...
May 19, 20222 min read


Fire the Blogger! Hire the Photographer!
I reckon I should probably be fired. I have not posted a blog since April 10, nearly a month ago. It was right after Kellie and I...
May 9, 20223 min read


Fire, Fire Way Too Close But the Flower Pictures Are Beautiful
I have a whole bunch of cool pictures to post taken during the hiking excursion that Kellie and I took today, but first, I must tell you...
Apr 10, 20223 min read


Musing about Flowers and Such
Anyway, if you've been keeping up with me on Facebook, you know that I have shared the pictures that Kellie posted on her feed and tagged...
Apr 3, 20223 min read


Something Cold, Something New
Today, Luna and I returned to our daily walking. The picture accompanying this blog shows what about half of the 2/3 mile path around the...
Feb 25, 20223 min read


A New (Revised) Poem for a Change
Anyway, Dewey Lynne is having a rest. I do not even have a bit of a note scratched for the next Dewey Lynne Bugler story. I am not sure...
Feb 20, 20222 min read


An Attempt at Something Different
Picture Caption: I was walking the other night after 6 o'clock, so it was dark, but away from all of the lights of town and with the full...
Nov 24, 20213 min read


Buying a New Friend?
I finally received my token of friendship from The American Poetry Review this week. I seem to remember when being friends did not...
Nov 7, 20213 min read


Not Inspired, I Guess
Anyway, I have been doing my daily walking, and I have been waiting for Nature to start showing out, for the colors to change, and to be...
Oct 17, 20213 min read


An Older, Wiser Man with Rhythm
Anyway, people ask me sometimes, “What do you mean that your older poems do not have a good rhythm? And is it really that important in...
Oct 10, 20213 min read


Sorting Through the Trash
Anyway, an Irish poet by the name of William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called The Circus Animals’ Desertion. Many critics and scholars...
Oct 5, 20214 min read


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