Sonnet Sunday: Memorial Day at the Shore

Flag at dawn on the beach

A Sonnet Sunday poem about Memorial Day at the Shore, honoring those who served, and holding gratitude alongside the season’s beginning.

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Tuesday Tunes: Cold by Annie Lennox

Tuesday Tunes: Cold

Annie Lennox’s Cold captures the quiet ache of emotional detachment, making it a stark and fitting close to January’s winter reflections.

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Sonnet Sunday: Chrysalis Weather

Sonnet Sunday

Not storm. Not calm. A Sonnet Sunday reflection on the in-between season where identity loosens and transformation waits.

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Thurston Howell Thursday: When Even the Millionaire Was Stranded

In the Gilligan’s Island episode “So Sorry, My Island Now,” an intruder arrives insisting the island belongs to him. It’s a perfect New Year’s reminder that the past – old habits, old stories, old versions of ourselves – has no right to claim our present.

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The Yuletide Viking: The Saga of Frostbeard Frank & Holiday Heather

Frostbeard Frank, the Yuletide Viking, strides through the mall like a winter legend—his beard swaying like an enchanted waterfall—while Holiday Heather marches ahead with the determination of someone who refuses to stop for pretzels again. A true Wacky Wednesday power duo.

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