"Keep your sunny side up, up!" ("Hide the side that gets blue"). I write this to myself as well as to you. No whining. I’ve been watching Foyle’s War on Netflix and really enjoying it. It very rarely hits the wrong note; I’ve watched two seasons and only had some quibbles with the series. It’s been making me think of the sacrifices made at that time (1940s), wondering whether modern society could soldier on so. Here’s news I know. First off, big congrats to Ellen Bass … [Read more...]
Glimpse of solace: Garfield Park Observatory
Guest Post: “One More Thing” by Lesléa Newman
“One More Thing,” this wonderful poem by Lesléa Newman, seemed to me to segue very well from the last guest post, “Smoking” by Laura Rodley. On first reading this poem made me think of the past. Subsequent readings made me think of the present. I know it will make you think too. Thanks again to Lesléa Newman for letting me share her work here. ONE MORE THING My mother crept downstairs at night, (I made believe I was asleep) She didn’t … [Read more...]
Glimpse of solace: smoking
Guest Post: Laura Rodley “Smoking”
I've been trying to write a post on giving up something for Lent, but I am still working on it. Smoking is something I've given up a number of times. Here, Laura Rodley captures why it attracts, rather than repels. Smoking My father’s brand Pall Malls, hands off steering wheel to light his, then flick off searing leaves that stuck to his lip, happened each trip sixty miles per hour, I worried we’d flip over, he contentedly pressed the … [Read more...]
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