As the poet Paul Celan once said, “a poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense,...
Recently my children have been asking more and more about the colonial times. They loved learning about the Pilgrims and their journey to America back at Thanksgiving and even though I thought we finished studying them, they continue to ask more questions. So I decided maybe we needed some mo...
This is unlike many contemporaneous desks of today when one sitting across from the manager must twist their legs to the side to work on the paperwork on the desk. Two chairs faced the desk and behind it was a credenza with two flag poles and two pictures of the president and...