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Seventeen
It’s a whirlwind season in my home life. Graduations, college preparation, combing through old pictures, casting off items we forget we had and certainly will never use again. Everyone is drifting –...
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Year 24: Nothing says I love you like a banjo
picture from GitBox Culture For my beautiful wife, on our wedding anniversary. Not the most romantic of sonnets, but consider the alternatives. This year was supposed to be a silver plate, and next...
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July 29, 1981
Photo credit: 80s Actual For whatever reason, I seem to be on a royal streak (flush?) right now. Here’s a brief memory of events from 32 years ago. Britain in the late 70s and early 80s was pretty...
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Sonnet: Talking on the phone to the mother of two pre-schoolers
Written with the greatest admiration for anyone who works at home looking after small children. How y’all get anything done is a minor miracle. Apart from, you know, EVERYTHING which you somehow...
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The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist
It was a bit over five hundred years ago that Leonardo da Vinci drew the cartoon shown above. It is thought to have been a study for a larger religious painting, but apparently that work never came to...
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Give my regards to Jerry
The monthly 50% off sale our our local Goodwill is a huge magnet for bargain hunters. It’s amazing the slice of life you can meet as you fight through the crowded aisles. Give my regards to Jerry...
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Thank You For The Music
Every once in a while, a “tribute band” comes through town on a national tour. Last weekend, we hosted “ABBA Mania” – a two-hour show chock full of ABBA’s greatest hits. It was a great evening, and...
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On teaching (the ukulele)
(A short meditation on teaching, and talent, and the ukulele) On teaching the ukulele It has been said: those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. It sounds quite clever, because, like all lies,...
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Lullaby
Picture from the Admiralty Blog Here in Indiana, we’ve begun 2014 with a snow storm. Listening to the weather forecasts on the radio takes me back to my childhood in England, listening to BBC Radio...
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Snowbound
Here in northern Indiana, it doesn’t take much talk of snow before the conversation turns to the great blizzard of January 1978. I was visiting Goshen, Indiana, when that incredible storm hit. We were...
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