A Good List
(Homage to Lorenz Hart)
Some nights, can’t sleep, I draw up a list,
Of everything I’ve never done wrong.
To look at me now, you might insist
My list could hardly be long,
But I’ve stolen no gnomes from my neighbor’s yard,
Nor struck his dog, backing out my car.
Never ate my way up and down the Loire
On a [...]

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“The Lanyard”
 
The other day as I was ricocheting slowly
off the pale blue walls of this room,
bouncing from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
I found myself in the L section of the dictionary
where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.
 
No cookie nibbled by a French novelist
could send one more suddenly into [...]

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I have, over the past few weeks, been forced to change my television viewing habits, and it’s all my friend Leora’s fault.
Leora Dowling is a motivational speaker (www.leoradowling.com) and we went to school together at the University of Hartford. After a quarter-century of going our separate ways, a series of serendipitous events allowed [...]

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My friend Dave reports that the temperature was 84 in Brunswick, Georgia on Tuesday and he was having some difficulty with the pollen in the air.
Here in the North Country, we’ve been dazzled by nearly two feet of fresh powder this week. Even in the dead of night, there’s so much new snow around [...]

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