Tag: John F. Kennedy

• To sleep, perchance to dream . . .

  On the morning of September 11, 2001, before all Hell broke loose, I was at my desk working on a lease agreement for a tenant moving into one of the shopping centers managed by the company where I worked. As I worked, writing and editing legal language to insert into the document, I could hear…

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  April 17, 2016

  Essay

  9-11, assassination, birth, C-section, Catholic Church, Compline, delivery, evening prayers, Hurricane Katrina, insomnia, John F. Kennedy, Louisiana, Mississippi River, nap, NYC, Palm Terrace Motel, Port Sulphur, pregnancy, September 11, sleep

• Poetry 101

  It’s early April and a damp, gloomy day out. Yet, in spite of the temperature being in the 40’s this morning, signs of spring are visible. When driving my daughter to the metro today I pointed out to her the forsythia in full bloom up and down both sides of the street. I told her…

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  April 12, 2015

  Essay

  Cecil Spring Rice, e. e. cummings, edgar allan poe, Eleanor Farjeon, Emily Dickinson, forsythia, Gustav Holst, John F. Kennedy, Jupiter, literature, mary ellen solt, poem, poetic, poetry, Robert Frost, spring, teaching, The Planets, W. H. Auden, Walt Whitman, william carlos williams, william shakespeare