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Michael Thomas Thoughts on Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, and Ramblings-It's All Here in...
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Aug 9, 20222 min read
Picture Say More Than Words--At the Moment Anyway! Hint: Words Are at the Bottom of the Pictures
Today, when Kellie and I got home from a morning at the doctor's office and a meeting at ASUMH (that's where we work), a long-awaited...
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Aug 6, 20222 min read
New Poem About Inspiration Or the Lack of It
Luna and I went walking yesterday morning (Friday) at the Fulton County Fairgrounds/Shooting Range, and we walked down the new road...
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Aug 5, 202213 min read
Chapter 2: All You Ever Need to Know About Enos “Stainy” Taney
Chapter 2: All You Ever Need to Know About Enos “Stainy” Taney Anyway, I don’t believe that I have to explain to anybody how Enos Taney...
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Jul 31, 20222 min read
A Poem Inspired by Thoughts More Sublime Than Usual
Yesterday, as I was seeking inspiration for a new poem, I searched through a folder called "Really, Really Rough Drafts," thinking that,...
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Jul 30, 202212 min read
Chapter 1: Minding Someone Else’s Business by Dewey Lynne Bugler
Chapter 1 Minding Someone Else’s Business Dewey Lynne here. What’s up? I hope that things are going well for all you folks out there in...
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Jul 25, 20229 min read
How I Came to Be in Prison and What Happened the Day Before I Was Arrested By Dewey Lynne Bugler
How I Came to Be in Prison and What Happened the Day Before I Was Arrested By Dewey Lynne Bugler Howdy, y’all! Dewey Lynne Bugler here....
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Jul 21, 20222 min read
Oh, Dear! Publication Pushed Back Again!
Wow! Was I ever excited this morning when I got an email from the publisher around 8:30 with words in bold and all caps FINAL PROOFS!...
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Jul 19, 20222 min read
A Dragon Eats the Moon: A Picture and a Poem About It.
Well, I hate to post another blog so close to the last one when I still have so many of my friends and acquaintances reading and...
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Jul 17, 20221 min read
A Poem and Picture Reminding Us Not to Abandon Hope in This Awful Stretch of Torturous Heat
Anyway, since I do seem to be stuck in a phase of writing short poems about Nature and its various scenes and faces, I offer today a poem...
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Jul 12, 20223 min read
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...
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Jul 11, 20224 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...
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Jul 3, 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...
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Jun 25, 20223 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...
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Jun 24, 202243 min read
Aunt Charlotte's Crib by Dewey Lynne Bugler
(Michael Thomas here, the real author of the Dewey Lynne stories, I would like to add a few warnings before you jump into this much...
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Jun 22, 20224 min read
The Purple Thistle Requiem
This early morning as Kellie and I walked at the Fulton County fairgrounds and Salem city park, we happened upon a purple thistle bush...
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Jun 20, 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...
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Jun 10, 20221 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...
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Jun 5, 20222 min read
More Pictures of Flowers and Sunsets and a Poem about Things I Saw or Did Not See
Anyway, lilies all over the yard are starting to bloom. We have yellow lilies and orange lilies. If they have different names, I am not...
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Jun 1, 20222 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...
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May 29, 20223 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...
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