Boomers, Not Looking Ahead. Many baby boomers worry about having to depend on other people to care for them in their old age. Yet most boomers have done little to prepare for that possibility, a recent survey suggests; This quote about the baby boomers made me think of lessons learned from the 30s. I learned [...]
Looking for Perfection
Each fall
I walk the asphalt road
turned to satin
by rain
and search the splatters
of maple leaves
to find one
perfect crimson star
the size of a baby’s hand.
Musings…
I’ve just finished reading Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason. Depressing but the excellent scholarship makes it riveting, especially to those of us who mourn the passing of things we treasured growing up in the thirties and forties; general knowledge about what (and where) things were actually going on in the world, appreciation for [...]
Night Terrors and the Wizard of Oz
They were under my bed
the creatures with conical hats,
orange and green.
Whatever happened to…
September went somewhere while I was supposed to be writing this for my website. I have a vague recollection of Labor Day and then October showed up on the calendar along with a few red and yellow leaves. The summer didn’t go that swiftly, but it was productive and, shall I say, balanced. I spent [...]
Today
my grandchildren, quarrelling in the bedroom
made me remember how much
I hated him.
