How could anyone be so threatening? He was over six foot four dressed in all black with a huge hat making him impose more. He had the beard of a terrorist.
Luckily, one man decided to take action.
John Wilkes Booth knew the audience would praise him for what he was about to do....
One morn as leaves sparkled with dew,
Unacknowledged, died the sage.
Family mourn’d him, but none knew
With his passage, passed an age.
For you see, in times long ago,
The pen was mightier than steel.
Words were rations for minds to grow,
The thought beyond, water for wheel.
As time w...
Though it deals with the aftermath of 9/11 and the firebombing of Dresden during World War II, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close captures the wonder, joy, and randomness of life. That’s not to say that Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel is devoid of depression and anger, but it refuses to allow th...
Today I found a long lost poem
A thought was hanging there, unfinished
All it said was “I remember”
Funny how I don’t remember what was to come next
Whatever it was could not have meant as much as that single phrase
I remember
That makes me human
I remember the good and the bad, t...