An introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks Maxie Allen always taught her Stipendiary little daughter To thank her Lord and lucky star For eye that let her see so far, For throat enabling her to eat Her...
What can strike many retirees particularly hard is just how many hours there are in a day. It can be difficult to grasp, while in the throes of a career, how much time is used either working or thinking about working.
Without that time guzzler, we must continually search for opportunities that make us feel productive and add meaning to our lives. It can involve re-inventing ourselves, sometimes with little or no direction.
Our goal here is to try to present some paths to consider, to lay out options so you can satisfy your psychological needs, and your creative ones. As a reader, please feel free to contribute your own ideas that can help make all of our lives more fulfilling.
The Horror of Nursery Rhymes
Keep your kids away from them. Parents have mindlessly recited century’s old nursery rhymes to their kiddies for hundreds of years. They have a feel-good tone, and there’s evidence that...
Women Beat Writers
Finally, some well-deserved attention. Like most disciplines in the mid twentieth century, literature has been male dominated. Most of the major movements in art and culture have had the same agenda...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
To Beat or Not To Beat In the late 40’s and into the 50’s and 60’s, a movement of unorthodox writers and artists came upon a stagnant literary world and decided through their work to change the...
The Dairy Farmer’s Husband
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” ….CS If you stand at the highest...
A Soldier’s Perspective
A poem from an Iraq war veteran. Christopher Pascale is a marine veteran who served in the Iraq War. Chris lives on Long Island, NY and is the the author of War Poems: A Marine’s Tour 2003-2008...
Chinese Luey — Part 6
Just Because Your Name is Chinese Luey Don’t Mean You Ain’t Norwegian. Finally Luey Goes Home…Sort of. After an orgy of food and drink, Luey couldn’t remember what or where he was or how...
Chinese Luey — Part 5
Just Because Your Name is Chinese Luey Don’t Mean You Ain’t Norwegian. Luey did the third chess puzzle in the book, and just like the other two, could not get the right answer...
Chinese Luey — Part 4
Just Because Your Name is Chinese Luey Don’t Mean You Ain’t Norwegian. Darkness and light breed with one another, one feeding off the other and dreaming only of complete surrender from...
Chinese Luey — Part 3
Just Because Your Name is Chinese Luey Don’t Mean You Ain’t Norwegian. Luey checked into the Holiday Inn on the corner near the Chinese Restaurant and across from the back gate to the...
