Category: Essays/Poetry

Just hearing the news, these days, can make you mighty cynical. So, when there’s a little ‘goodness’, how good that is!

To help more students like me get to college, look beyond education policy…

Paunch… or Belly fat… whatever you choose to call it… I’ve got some of that, even though I walk a lot and ride a bike…

In several dictionaries, ‘Gadzooks’ is defined as a mild oath. But in at least one dictionary, it’s “an explanation of surprise”…

As a former President, citizen Trump is sending out “occasional” press releases, but they “rarely are going viral…”

You can spend your whole adult life and career working at shaping opinion, without really knowing, for sure, if you’re succeeding…

When I die, spread my ashes on this land; and when you hear the wind gently blowing through the pines, it is my voice, singing to you from afar…

One was carrying an Amazon package and said, “I’d be rich if my wife quit ordering from Amazon!”…

Another email, starting out with “Dear User,” said I have some “Annual plan” that I do not have. And that I could click on a tab in the email, or call, to check billing information for the phantom plan…

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, was on TV the other day, with words about the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party, too…

“The election technology company, Dominion Voting Systems, with main offices in Denver and Toronto, filed $1.3 billion defamation lawsuits…”

And then I’m thinking… Heaven help us! We may be going down similar paths. Or the same collision course with an iceberg, the doomed ship…

‘Pickle.’ That’s another oldie but goodie when, rather than saying someone’s in a real bind, one says ‘What a pickle’ someone’s in!

Similar to many of my teenage students, I feel trapped in my apartment, tethered to an online school bell…