All Creatures Great And Small
If I could have bottled yesterday’s weather, I would have. Cool and crisp, it begged you to come outside and play. I first feed my mules each day at 2 a.m., religiously, in all seasons and weather. They each get a large bowl of chopped carrots, apples and celery with a garnish of dry roasted […]
The Black Rose Forever
Track your order Boston Scally CompanySold and shipped by Boston Scally CompanyThe Black Rose Peaky Boston Scally Cap – Black & Grey PlaidX-Large [60cm]$52.00Qty: 1 Now, if you’ve read enough of these blogs, or FJM, you may know that the real name of Spaghetti’s wife, Posie, was Rose. Posie was a huge part of my childhood. My […]
Beautiful Fall Day At Casa Claire
Yesterday had that autumn chill in it right from the moment I went out to feed Claire and Honey. I felt it through my sweatshirt. Still not cool enough to trade in my bare foot Birks for sneakers, but my toes registered the change. It was cool enough for Blue to wrap herself in her […]
Friday the 13th – Happy Birthday Dave Buzan
The above photo is Dave Buzan. He is a writer I met not too long ago through our common publisher, BRW. I have never met Dave in person or spoken with him on the phone. However, I have communicated with him extensively by email and DM. More importantly, I have followed Dave on social media […]
Life Imitating Art
As many of you know, with the fall well on its way, the local hives lose some of its members. Some are final nomads out of age – I believe bees only live 40 days – and some self-sacrificing out of necessity for the greater good. The hive just can’t support them over the colder […]
My First Zoom Poetry Reading
I haven’t done Zoom much. Indeed, I can only use my lap top for it since my desktop computer refuses to engage. Yesterday, Theresa Daly was doing her first public reading of her new book of poetry at an artsy cafe on 238th street in the Bronx – Mon-Amour-Coffee-and-Wine Cafe (Just east of Broadway and […]
Blog Site Maintenance – Wandering Mind – And Don’t Forget Tonight’s Poetry Reading At Mon-Amour-Coffee-and-Wine Cafe
Every once in a while the websites you may work with close down for maintenance. This morning it was the host of my blog site. It really wasn’t too bad, just a solid hour, from 3 to 4, but it was just at the moment I was about to write my morning blog. So I […]
Do Not Forget – Do Not Miss – Tomorrow Night’s Poetry Reading
Tuesday night, October 10th, at the mon-amour-coffee-and-wine cafe in the Bronx – just east of Broadway and the El – https://www.yelp.com/biz/mon-amour-coffee-and-wine-bronx Theresa Daly will be reading from her new book of poetry – Wild Atlantic Soul. I know, to some of you fellas, the idea of attending a poetry reading might rub you the wrong […]
Three
Now I have always liked the number 3. Not sure where that inclination came from but I do remember a whole lot of commercials growing up. On a purely imaginative level, we would swipe Ballantine whenever we could (the statute of limitations has long run given that it had to happen before 1972, when the […]
Get Behind Me Satan
Well, yesterday was a first. I was working diligently in my basement office when I heard Blue barking. Then I heard the bang of my heavy metal door knocker, Geoffrey, on my front door. So I went up and looked out and saw a Honda SUV backing out of my driveway. Not wanting to miss […]