When Ted Kooser was Poet Lariat, he came to my town, and spoke at our public library. I took my youngest daughter, who was twelve at the time. The insurance company executive who got up every morning at oh-four-thirty to write before work read a handful of his poems and then answered questions. I ra...
thanks so much, Doreen, I will post something soon. I've loved the banjo for a long, long time (the Beverly Hillbillies were in prime time when Earl Scruggs knocked me over). And I kept saying 'one of these days, when I have time, I am going to learn to play'. I finally realized that I was never gon...
...I said, but then the doctor snipped my umbilical cord, slapped my butt and handed me to my mother. My first ta-da! moment cut sadly short, and my only recompense a shiny 1958 quarter scotch-taped over my healing USB port. So it goes. Taoist in outlook, Monkey persona; my totem is Turtle, and my g...