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Turning 42 this September, this poem spoke to me. It is, at the same time, uplifting and a little depressing.
You can find The Writer’s Almanac on the American Public Media website.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/04/27
Foreseeing
by Sharon Bryan
Middle age refers more
to landscape than to time:
it’s as if you’d reached
the top of a hill
and could see all the way
to the [...]

I’ll probably not make it a habit of posting every one of these, and I will make it a habit to make sure that the link to the official writer’s almanac page is included whenever I make a reference. However, today’s poem stuck with me. I wonder where the actor’s profession would fall [...]

That’s right. On an impulse, I went out and joined AT&T and bought an iPhone. Don’t worry … phone number is still the same and I still have everyone’s #’s.
Early indicators are fantastic.
Here’s an equation.
iPhone + wireless + Pandora app + iPod speaker system = AWESOME!
iPhone + facebook = FANTASTIC!

Please, please, PLEASE!
Tummy,
I’m speaking to you now. I know that my voice has been a regular issue for me for the last month, and that recently the diagnosis is pointed pretty directly at gastrointestinal lack of fortitude on your part. My apologies for neglecting you, and I’d like to think I’m remedying [...]

I subscribe to American Public Media’s Writer’s Almanac. Today’s poem spoke to me, though I do not share the exact circumstances of the poem’s protagonist (the loss of a close loved one.) However, being on the road, and coming back home every so often, the imagery of the “life gone by” when someone [...]

I just posted this on my facebook page. Seemed appropriate for here:
Twenty Five Things about Me
1. I have a minor interest in Astronomy. My favorite constellation to look at is Cassiopeia. (The big ‘W’ in the sky. Of late, the ONLY ‘W’ I can tolerate.)
2. As from #1, clearly my political mindset is NOT [...]

Hey gang,
Voice report. Much Progress, but still a little quavery (is that a word?) .. so I’ve been holed up trying to rest it. While trying not to succumb to cabin fever, I have completed the puppetry section of my website. I’m quite proud of the fact that I’ve been able to [...]

So … here I am, a mere four weeks away from a nearly 3 octave range while performing in Dogpark: The Musical, and I have come a long way since then. I say that mainly because at the moment I am on permanent vocal rest after a virus came in right after I got done. [...]

Well tonight is the last night of Dogpark: The Musical at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. It’s been great being on the ground floor of another Hillgartner/Beecham/Hume extravaganza.
Thus begins the inevitable pavement-pounding, searching for work. Stay tuned though … there are a few positive little nibbles here and there, I won’t be down [...]

Chip gets away from the theatre to explore what makes the concept of Dogpark: The Musical ring true. He visits the Granville Dogpark, The Mitchell Park Dog Exercise Area (which he knows is West of downtown rather than North) and Muttland Meadows in Grafton, WI.
Meet Romey, Bagley, Sadie, Genghis and other notable mutts on this [...]