Archive for the ‘Arts & Letters’ Category

Lennart Green: Master of the Cards

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Just for your enjoyment...a master magician doing his thing...

Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Nobel prize-winning Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was forced into exile for books strongly critical of the Soviet government, has died at 89. His son said Sunday Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure while Russian news reports said he suffered a stroke. Solzhenitsyn was an iconic world symbol of censorship and oppression in ...

New U.S. Poet Laureate

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Marin County Poet, Kay Ryan named U.S. Poet Laurete Nothing Ventured by Kay Ryan Nothing exists as a block and cannot be parceled up. So if nothing's ventured it's not just talk; it's the big wager. Don't you wonder how people think the banks of space and time don't matter? How they'll drain the big tanks down to ...

Off On Vacation

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Thanks for coming by...regular writing will continue in a couple of weeks (I know I just start this thing and it's time for our family vacation). I will "Tweet" as time and thoughts allow (and if the cell phone work proper :) ) and I do have a post or two ...