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I am a graduate of Yale University with a Master's degree in English. I am busily retired and live in Pacific Grove, CA. I am attempting to market my self-published memoir, "Past Imperfect, Present Progressive. I spend much of my spare time at the computer

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Fresh air: 4 of 87
Suddenly I look 'round And everything is changed. The sky is bleached and polished, Trees are freshly rinsed By air with champagne tingles And a purifying sun. Come over here and sit with me. We'll synchronize our heartbeats And breathe in counterpoint. Suddenly I listen, And nature's all in tune. Birds are singing madrigals... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: When I Consider How My Light is Spent, John Milton: 1 of 20
Though blind when he composed his greatest poetry, John Milton could think in iambic pentameter. Over a period of four to five years he dictated to one or another of his daughters the epic poem Paradise Lost. A shorter sequel, Paradise Regained, and the drama Samson Agonistes followed soon after. Ludwig van Beethoven, stone ... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: To a Mouse, by Robert Burns: 1 of 19
A far cry from the urban-dwelling poets of The Age of Reason, "Bobbie" Burns was a man of the soil. Until his mid-teens he worked on the farms of the lowlands of Scotland. By his early 20s he was a veteran of love affairs and a regular of the local taverns. He found time to journey through the backwoods areas of northern Eng... More..
Education > High School Humanities The making of an English teacher: 1 of 16
I never liked being called "bookish," but I have been hearing it ever since since primary school years. Grades 1 through 3 I boarded at a Catholic military school. In the Juniors Yard there was a cabinet to which Sister Cristina had a key. In it we kept any privately owned toys or equipment such as baseball gloves, balls, to... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Beliefs & Culture A look at Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God": 1 of 16
A tremendous upsurge in religious piety swept the American colonies for four decades beginning in 1730. Historians have since labeled this period The First Great Awakening. This fervid evangelism was a counter movement to the Age of Enlightenment, whose adherents preached rationalism and scientific inquiry and deemphasized r... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Fish: 1 of 16
GNU CLEAR FISSION (Find 70+ fish and marine animals) Cause rotting in the sun, fish smelt so bad I plaiced a tarpon a dead dogfish. When I had time to mullet Dover, I snook a look, just for the halibut. My guts began to flounder. Never sawfish look so crappie! If I'd been in a bar ah coulda, Put t' rout my heaving gorge, I'd... More..
Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) Weird travel stories: 5 of 69
Near the midpoint of our ten-day cruise of the Galapagos, our small ship paid a call to the island of Floreana. We snorkeled at the romantically named Devil's Crown, sharing sea space with reef sharks, golden rays, and myriads of fish. Back aboard our yacht, a guide/naturalist regaled us with stories of the island's earliest... More..
Health & Fitness > Aging & Longevity Depression and seniors: A growing trend: 2 of 27
An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick... W. B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium" I started school a year earlier than most and grew used to being the youngest in my academic and social groups. For a while it was a detriment both athletically and socially. In those early years just after you start writin... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats: 1 of 13
The intellectual and emotional appeal of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" prohibit wasting words on the author's biography and the mechanics of his prosody. All commentary should attempt recapitulation of the impact and tonality of fifty-one lines that ring with universal meaning and symphonic resonance. The poem is a prolonge... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: The World is Too Much with Us, by William Wordsworth: 3 of 36
Romanticism is an artistic and philosophical movement difficult to summarize ibriefly. Historians mark its beginning with the Fall of the Bastille in 1789. They differ by a few years on its terminus; some use the Reform Bill of 1832, others Queen Victoria's ascent to the Engish throne in 1837. In English literature, the earl... More..