Henry’s Mistake

Harrison County, Ohio, November 27, 1926
 At exactly two-thirty in the afternoon under a gray and dismal sky, Hannah, newly widowed wife of Henry Moesher, and two weeks shy her forty-fifth birthday, stood at the edge of an open grave staring down at a plain pine-box containing the body of her deceased husband. Friends and neighbors, [...]

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New monitor, but. . .

As I said I would, I purchased a new monitor, connected it to the TV tower and thought everything in good order. I must be “older” in the head than I thought: I’m having a bit of a problem adjusting to a light pink screen. I’ve given up after having spent considerable time trying to find out [...]

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A Small Problem, But. . .

Really, once back to blogging, I truly meant to jot down at least something each and every day on my blogsite, but “something” out ‘there’, or up ‘there’ has seen fit to thwart me. Computer working fine but I guess it’s time for a new monitor. I’ve managed to keep the monitor from going crazy while typing [...]

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Books, Poetry Books

Any poet, or would-be poet searching for poetry books in a used book store, soon realizes how few there are in proportion to other genre. And every poet can tell you why. I can tell you why.
Though I wish to prolong, as long as possible, an eventual move into a desirable retirement home, I am, even now drastically thinning out [...]

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Another, This and That

Though I may have a “bat” or two in the “belfry”, I can be reasonably certain there are none spending their daytime hours in the attic of my little house. I believe I have already mentioned that some four or five weeks ago, shortly after sunset, I discoved a small colony of bats wheeling about just outside my [...]

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Getting Prepared

If all goes well, come July 21st, my daughter Bev, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, and I will be heading for Bird In Hand, Pennsylvania and our annual Gallagher/Kaufman reumion. One of the things I dread leaving behind are the  wonderful “No Smoking” laws that apply to any and all establishemnts open to the public here in [...]

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Hiatus, Over, I Hope

Suddenly—a word I’ve grown to dislike and mainly because it is so overused—I find it apropos as to why I’ve been absent from my blogsite for a few days. ”Sudddenly”, and for no more reason than I’ve had for a long time, a few days ago while washing the luncheon dishes—in a slightly too warm kitchen . . . I  [...]

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This, That and the Other, Day 1

A few moments ago I left a blogsite whose hostess—I guess that is what we may call ourselves—hosts and hostessess—who kept me smiling as I read her amusing accounts of “Life With Father” while her devoted hubby kept the house repaired and so on. I had good cause to recall my own experiences with keeping a home in [...]

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There Ain’t No Such Place, Day 3

Now that I’ve gleaned from the Bible all the scriptures containing the words parable and parables, I should like to tackle the language Jesus spoke: the Aramaic tongue and the common language of the entire area in which Jesus was born and matured to adulthood. The Aramaic language is a language rich in idioms, idioms that [...]

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There Ain’t No Such Place, Day 2

As I stated on my blogsite yesterday, I really don’t know just how to prove that, in spite of what is claimed by fundamental Christians, Jesus could not have taught the doctrine of Hell. I fully realize that my mission is doomed to failure—with the exception of those whose minds are open to possibilities other than what the church has [...]

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