Tag Archives: Literary Events

A Day For Bold and Decisive Action

Click play for a soundtrack to this post:  Stars and Stripes Forever Happy March 4th! I like to say to my office colleagues on the 4th of March, “Today is my favorite day of the year.”  Invariably they ask why.  … Continue reading

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A Good Time Was Had By All

Here’s a note we got from my wife’s cousin and her husband.  They conducted their first annual Burns Supper last weekend. Well, Gary and Anita, we did it. We had our Burns Supper this evening and it was fantastic. Everyone … Continue reading

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Immortal Memory 2: A Brief Burns Bio

Robert Burns was born 200 years and almost 6  months before me on January 25, 1759 to a gardener and his wife in Ayr, in the southwestern part of Scotland.  When Burns turned six his father, William, hired a tutor … Continue reading

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Come Get High With Us…

(One way I live literarily is to write event invitations with puns, double entendres, rhymes, and whatever other literary devices sound good to me at the moment.  Here is the invitation I sent out for my wife’s birthday party.  This … Continue reading

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