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About me - Kerry Michael Wood

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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Politics, News & Issues > Sports Archives 2008 Women's March Madness: Team profiles: Stanford Lady Cardinals: 2 of 2
This has GOT to be the year for the Stanford Lady Cardinal(s) Basketball Team. (Why the parenthetical "s"? The name that replaced Indians refers to a color, not a red bird or a non-existent team of female Catholic prelates.) This Sunday Tara VanDerveer's team will face the Connecticut women coached, by Gene Auriemma, whose r... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe: 2 of 2
Edgar Allan Poe's poem, To Helen, was inspired by Sarah Helen Whitman, the beautiful young mother of one of Poe's boyhood friends - "the first purely ideal love of my soul," according to the poet. Or was his poetic inspiration Jane Stith Stanard, as numerous Poe scholars argue? It makes little difference. Since the poem exis... More..