Anyway (isn’t that how you begin, Michael?), I have taken over this week’s blog to explain a little about Michael’s upcoming book of...

Anyway, Kellie and I went to Mountain View on Saturday to our grandson Colt’s football game. After the football game, we went with my son...

Anyway, I was walking the other evening. I tend to do that a lot. Kellie wasn’t walking with me on this rare occasion, and the sky looked...

Anyway, you will probably notice right away in looking at the title of the poem that it is called Old #5. That is because this is the...

Anyway, Kellie and I were walking in the city park at Salem early Saturday morning, and we both took a picture trying to capture the...

Anyway, if I am going to blog about poetry, sometimes the discussion has to get a little bit technical. My hope is that I can find a...

Anyway, I have finished the poem for the first request that I have received from a reader. I generally do not think it is fair to explain...

Anyway, Kellie's sister Diane Keith responded to my request for poems about birds and said that she would like one about a cardinal. Most...

Some of you may have recognized the title as the words from the middle section of The Beatles’ song A Day in the Life from the Sgt....

Anyway, Kellie and I were walking the other morning as the sun came up. It was one of those gorgeous sunrises that makes a person feel...

Anyway, a family story goes that a mule by the name of “Mike” kicked me in the head when I was a child, and that mulish attack upon my...

Anyway, I have been reading a lot of poetry on websites lately. Overall, the quality is as lacking as one might suspect from social sites...

Actually, I don’t know if a poet ever bit a dog, and that was not really the comment that inspired me to the current consideration. The...