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All You Need Is Love
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/QGp6DZpDNbo&source=uds Paul McCartney is joined here by Queen, Brian Wilson, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Tony Bennett, Ozzy Osbourne, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bruce Hornsby, and a full orchestra to perform All You Need Is Love. This version also interpolates She Loves You and the British national anthem (replacing the French national anthem from the original). The lyrics… Read more
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Road Rage – Flash Fiction Friday
My flash fiction piece Road Rage was published this week in the Driftless Review, Issue 3. Read more
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Miserere
They don’t write ’em like this anymore. Probably for good reason, but that doesn’t take anything away from the genius behind this piece of music from the 1630s. It was written for a four-person choir and a five-person choir to sing together. At one time it was an offense punishable by excommunication to transcribe it… Read more
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Memorial Day – In Flanders Fields
John McCrae This Memorial Day I’d like to share a poem written in remembrance of a fallen soldier. John McCrae was a Canadian doctor who also fancied himself a bit of a poet. On May 3, 1915 the 42 year old presided over the funeral of a friend who had died at the Second Battle… Read more
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Lost and Found
Hot off the presses (and computer screen) comes my contemporary novel of love Lost and Found. “It was a nightmare. It had to be. What else could it be? Alan’s body was broken and bloody. The bones that hadn’t been ripped from his skeleton were snapped like twigs. Something large, machine or animal, had attacked… Read more
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The Ultimate Sacrifice
That soil is now depletedAnd worse than dangerousIt thirsts for fresh nutrition for its decaying rootsIt sees its own reflection in the water and ignores the rippling wavesIt imagines green leaves sprouting from its dustIt believes its own most vicious lies The trees have fallen, died, and burnedThey’ve buried themselves in sand They’ve shed their… Read more
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