And farewell Obama. You have been the best, most inspiring President of my lifetime. I have never been prouder and more honored to be an American than during the past eight years. We will miss you. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King Jr. …
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Wishing you PEACE, LOVE, and UNITY in 2017
Thought for the Day from Abe Lincoln: On Know-Nothings and Emigrating to Russia
(image by Sharon Cummings) From Abraham Lincoln's 1855 Letter to Joshua Speed Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will …
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Dying #3
We shopped until she d r o p p e d.
Dying 2
She says: He put the dog down She says: I want a chocolate milkshake She adds: And fries She says: He said she had a good life, finally She says: He said everyone loved her in the end She says: I bought a new face cream called “vital glow” She says: Try some She …
The Poetessa Project: #2 Cristina Campo
The Way to Have Everything In order to know everything don’t want to know anything at all. In order to enjoy everything don’t want to enjoy anything at all. In order to own everything don’t want to own anything at all. In order to be everything don’t want to be anything at all.
Dying
We're old older not that old One of us is dying We suffer the humiliation of "Hello ladies" graciously
The Poetessa Project: #1 Patrizia Cavalli
Someone told me that of course my poems will not change the world. I answer that yes of course my poems will not change the world.
Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro
My family and I dressed all in white and welcomed in the New Year of 2016 on the Copacabana Beach together with thousands of Rio citizens. We watched a fireworks display like no other I have ever seen, so spectacular and relentless, the overwhelming visual pleasure of it recalibrated for me the word awe. There …
“They can sag a little, can’t they?”: The Extraordinary Careers of Two Divas From Berlin – my review in 3:AM Magazine
In her memoirs, Leni Riefenstahl—the German actress and filmmaker famous for her association with Hitler—describes her first and only meeting with her compatriot and colleague Marlene Dietrich: I was struck by her deep, husky voice, which sounded a bit vulgar and suggestive. Maybe she was a little tipsy. I heard her saying loudly, “Why does …
Jenny McPhee 