Stopping by Woods one Snowy Day in Westport

I love the controversial – yes it is – Frost Poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” So simple, yet . . . well, forget the various interpretations. I love the poem simply for the visual images it evokes. And I like watching a woods fill up with snow. So when we got a [...]

Hey Joe & Palin, my dog has written a book too – but then, she’s cute and knows English!

OMG! Here’s Palin’s response, after Matt Lauer asked her when she knew the election was lost: “I had great faith that, you know, perhaps when that voter entered that voting booth and closed that curtain that what would kick in for them was, perhaps, a bold step that would have to be taken in casting [...]

Time to go to sea ;-) (Melville, Kristoferson, Cash)

The weather here is depressingly damp and drizzly and being November, when we get a spell like this it always brings to mind this portion of the opening of Moby Dick: Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily [...]