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• BOOK REVIEW: The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

  The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This Shakespearean comedy shows the cheery and chubby womanizer, Sir John... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Batman: A Death in the Family by Jim Starlin, Et. Al.

  Batman: A Death in the Family by Jim Starlin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This collection gathers comic books first published in the late 80's, telling... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Soulless Hour

  In the soulless hour, hearing my pulse, a rubber mallet pounding a distant tin roof. Comtemplating tribe signaling social media as the place truth and... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Visitors

  

  Don't tell me stories about screaming trees. I've heard them in the forest after dark. Strange boats landed on the shore from vast seas, carrying saws to make... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• My Year of Discovering How Weird the Mind Gets, Part VII [Lucid Dreaming]

  

  Lucid dreaming is the act of becoming aware that one is in a dream while dreaming. It's called "Dream Yoga" in some Eastern traditions (most notably, Tibetan... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: No Rage Left, Mr. Thomas

  Some rage against the dying of the light. Some rage at the neon glow through their window, catching them in the eye after midnight, slowing time's movement to... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Classic Poems to Read Aloud Sel. by James Berry

  Classic Poems to Read Aloud by James Berry My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This anthology consists of about 160 poems arranged in eleven thematic chapters.... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Tesseract Rest

  I had a patio into 4th dimensional space. It was in a shape I couldn't imagine, I painted it a color that doesn't exist. Sometimes it warped into a torus, ... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 5 Tips for Traveling Introverts

  

  I'm living proof that introversion and love of travel are not at odds. That said, introversion is all about managing stimulating situations before they... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Ode to Cheese

  

  "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." - G.K. Chesterton Ah, Mister Chesterton, I must concur. The Camembert love is lacking,... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

  What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page It might seem like any book on Buddhism would - by definition - be a book about... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Modern Art and Science of Mobility by Aurlien Broussel-Derval...

  The Modern Art and Science of Mobility by Aurelien Broussal-Derval My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This book is designed to help athletes (and those who... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Science of Monsters by Meg Hafdahl & Kelly Florence

  The Science of Monsters: Demystifying Film's Most Notorious Vampires, Witches, Zombies, and More by Meg Hafdahl My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page Scheduled... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Eternity is Overrated

  

  What bird or bat drives my fright? I heard a bump just last night, for the third night in a row. Then a word, as from Poe's crow, the word I heard was... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Night Haiku

  

  chirps clicks, throaty frog croaks nightly nocturne just past dusk bats take to balconies urban caves mountain skies glow of nebula ghosts in color northern... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Rainy Season Angkor Wat

  Fun fact: Instead of a dry season and a monsoon (rainy) season, Angkor has a rainy season and a rainier season. That is, there's the Northeast monsoon season... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Vanished Lands

  

  vanished lands, on a sandy sea floor sit stones - once a city who will find them? what a pity, someone dragged those stones into place, nudging them into the... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

  Amazon page One might think that a book narrated by Death and set in Nazi Germany during the Second World War would be bleak from cover to cover. But one would... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: It’s Not Magic by Jon Sands

  Amazon page This is a collection of (mostly) prose and free verse poetry. The content of the poems is autobiographical in nature. Sands was one of five winners... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Silk Road

  

  the carcass of an ancient inn rests in a valley green weary voyagers would long trudge by the time it was seen through a pass and round a bend shaded by stark... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL