OF NITS AND THE PICKING THEREOF THERE IS NO END by Rob Lopresti I picked up the newspaper today (and yes, I still read the acoustic version, rather than the electric one) and saw something rather odd. The article was about the investigation of a woman’s disappearance and the police search of a home owned […]

WHAT DO MEN & WOMEN WANT? by Melodie Johnson Howe This fall NBC is bringing back The Playboy Club (ergo young sexy Playboy Bunnies) in a new series. Another channel is bringing back the now defunct airline Pan Am (ergo the young, sexy, “come fly with me” stewardesses of the sixties) in a series. What […]

AN ANNOUNCEMENT by James Lincoln Warren AT SEA ‘Farewell and adieu’ was the burden prevailing Long since in the chant of a home-faring crew; And the heart in us echoes, with laughing or wailing,      Farewell and adieu. Each year that we live shall we sing it anew, With a water untravelled before us for sailing […]

The POINT of PUNCTUATION by Leigh Lundin Goodnight Irene Florida braced for Hurricane Irene just as I was finishing roofing a house partially destroyed in a previous hurricane. After Category 4 and 5 storms, Floridians yawn at a mere Category 1. Indeed, surfers were out riding the waves, although one was killed when he was […]

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING BOOGEYMAN by John M. Floyd This past Tuesday my wife and I returned from a week-long road trip to visit our oldest son and his family in Parkersburg, West Virginia. It’s a friendly city with an interesting history, set in a beautiful part of the country—and it’s located about fifty miles northeast of […]

TYPING THROUGH TEARS by Steven Steinbock It doesn’t happen often. I can probably count on one hand the number of times it’s happened to me. But this week I had to add another finger. I’d been editing the novel. Draft Five if anyone is keeping track. A good friend of mine showed me how dear […]

PAGES OF TIME by Deborah Elliott-Upton I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. —“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer, 1886-1918 It seems everywhere I turn, people are having their trees loped off at ground level. Judging by their size, these are trees that have been thriving for a minimum of thirty […]