Recently I sent one of my father’s carvings to Eden Maxwell–a blogging buddy who lives in New Mexico. Eden is not only a committed writer, but a writer with profound insight into the creative process.
Eden posted “Carving Time” on his blog to acknowledge my father’s critter “I.M.A. Fox”–otherwise known as “Mr. Fox.”
There’s a wonderful photo there of I.M.A. Fox running in New Mexico. Also scroll down to see my niece Janean’s comment.
Dr. Curt Madison, 60, will become the new director of distance education for the University of Maine system. He’ll move to that position from Fairbanks, where he has led distance education at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks since 2002. Read more about Dr. Madison’s career in the Kennebec Journal: “UMaine’s new distance-learning chief knows…
Carol created this slide show from family archival photos I sent her. These photos play over my reading of “Mama’s Suitcase” from “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.”
My father loves womankind, and he is kindness itself to women. At 92 his current hobby is shepherding a family of adopted daughters through their tearful life moments…in extremely practical and tangible ways at times…in poetic ways at other times as in the poem we share with you today. This adopted daughter is my father’s…
Those of you who went to Sunday School will recognize my play on words with the beattitudes (be-attitudes). Coming back from such a sea-change trip, I wanted to count some blessings I received on home ground in this post. In another post, I’ll count blessings footloose and abroad. 1) Send-off Dinner. Before I left, Doreen…
Sign in to the NY Times online to read this stories….or, what the heck….go out and buy paper off the rack and read it over a cuppa coffee. Report Takes Aim at ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype of Asian-American Students By TAMAR LEWIN The image of Asian-Americans as a homogeneous group of high achievers taking over the…
Friday, May 18, 2012 (7 to 10 p.m.) Mad Art Gallery 2727 S. 12th St. St. Louis, MO Soyinka will discuss his poem and the Poetry Scores project live on St. Louis radio Monday, May 14. He will provide a live interview to the poetry show on KDHX, “Literature from the Halibut,” 9-10 p.m. next…