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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Poetry and Parchment

I sold my car recently and, as a celebration of sorts, took the money I would have wasted on the vehicle that month and spent it on a stack of poetry books. I will never read every page of every one of these books but I look forward to wandering through complete and collected works [...]

Random Picture

Checking in on my Random Pictures page I spotted this strange one, in which a tiny human being appears to be caught in a bush.  

always

Still glinting wings; the dull-red lacquer head Lifted from its socket, turned machanically This way and that, like a wristwatch being wound, As if there would always be time . . . From The House Fly, by Robert Merrill

KTPB in Kilgore, Texas, and a Greyhound Bus Trip

This Greyhound Bus receipt documents an important piece of personal history for me. In September of 1990, a few months after graduating from college, I took a bus trip to Kilgore, Texas, to interview for a job as Programming Director at KTPB FM in Kilgore. It was an all-new station and the crew setting it [...]

Sinking

ASV Yearbook, 1974-1975

I re-discovered an old school yearbook last year and over several months I scanned a few of its 100+ pages at a time to make the full book available to the public. There is an active alumni interest in the school but my interest lies in its uniqueness and the unusual time and place that [...]