Some grade school student dropped… Fortunately, the useful life of th… I’m a long way past grammar school… So I picked up the discarded penc… Many thanks to you, unknown grade…

When I was there ten weeks ago Portugal seemed most charming. But today the fires raging there Are utterly alarming. Then I witnessed only blue

Billowing clouds swirl below While a pale yellow sunlight fringes the horizon. The fury of last night’s storms Upended our travel plans

We might think that COVID is fi… Thirty months since it first came… The president declared the pandemi… Let us fervently pray he’s not wro… The vaccines were designed to help…

A long way from Mt. Pulaski on this cold, Illinois night. The Interstate is reaching out to Kris and Chuck, near Dwight. Dwight is far behind them now

With floodwaters up to her waist A woman in Florida scrolls through her smartphone. Those devices really have taken over our lives,

Making myself write As I’m doing this moment Isn’t a bad thing

She was once the fastest woman ali… and won a gold medal to prove it less than a decade ago. But where does one go from the top of the world?

The cafes are always ready To serve their guests a meal Or sometimes just a drink will do Their setting is most ideal. Passing away an hour, sometimes mo…

Our earth is now more dry and warm Than we’ve ever seen before. And climate trends suggest that We’ll see this even more. As the planet dries, to great exte…

As I understand it, here’s what a… First, select the best words for s… Then bind them together with an ir… Tweak them as needed, to make the… And turn them loose, so the world…

American governance is only as str… As our ability to defend it. And if (or when) it goes away We won’t ever get it back.

We love and we laugh On this earthly voyage, Circling around the sun For an unknown period of time. The only thing we truly know