2024

Poetry and Song By Linda Stowe How One Thing Led to AnotherLast month I read about Poetry 180, a project developed by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins.  The point of the 2002 project was to make poetry an active part of the daily life of high school students by encouraging them to read a poem […]

Some things can be a lot of different things.Like bark.  Or date.  Or tie. Most of the time, when we use the word, we have a singular meaning in mind.  So. When we say we have a lovely rose garden, we don’t think about Bob and how he recently rose to the occasion.  We are

What is it about this day? September 8th? Get this.Things happen on this date. On September 8th in 1960 we saw the nationwide release (United States) of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”  Of course it starred Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh and that darn shower. Then, six years later, on September 8th in 1966 we watched as “Star

I smell a rat. We all know the phrase.  It means that we suspect trickery or deception.  We think that something or someone is not as it appears to be.  Or, perhaps, that something dishonest is happening. This idiom is very old. It originates from at least the 16th century.  It first appeared in 1540

People Want To Talk By Linda Stowe I have followed Walter Isaacson for years. You may have seen a clip of Isaacson interviewing some well-known figure on your local public TV station. But don’t shrug this guy off as a mere interviewer. He’s a lion among reporters and authors. Isaacson is best known for his

Today. An ordinary day?  Is there anything such as an ordinary day?Well. Here is something about this one. The very first electric traffic light in the United States was installed on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.  On this very date, August 5, 1914. But traffic lights had been

Good Eating By Linda Stowe Morgan Spurlock died this past May of complications of cancer. He was 53, a young age considering that white males his age have an average life expectancy of 74.8 years.Spurlock was a documentary filmmaker who is best known for his 2004 film “Super-Size Me” which raised public awareness about the

Horses. I’ve never been around horses much, but I sure do like to look them in the eye.  I think they are smart.  At least, that’s the feeling I get when I am around them for a short while. When I was little, every summer, our family would go to a Catholic retreat in Kentucky