It was a pretty good show, though I kept getting distracted by grief attacks. Being a fairly old school poet of 58 years, I can't say that I heard much that I recognized as poetry. But they were entertaining. Without having a text of Dan Leaman's poems with me, it seemed as if he could spend 5 or 10 minutes talking about nothing in particular and ( Read more... )

 The Righteous Brothers.

Packing today, moving in tomorrow, and I'll be off the Internet for awhile. Anyway, busy, busy, but the nerve wracking stuff is almost over.

 Just when I thought that the pressure of moving and buying a new home is lifting a little, my bank (Wells-Fargo) has charged my checking account twice for the closing costs of the condo. Nearly $17,000. As if it wasn't hard enough on my nerves to take that much out of my account... So it's up early tomorrow to get those idiots to fix it so that I ( Read more... )

Friday, August 31st, 2007. This is the day I will sign the papers to close the sale/purchase of the condominium. Another watershed in my life, for good or ill. Still haven’t settled on a moving company. So far none of them have given me an estimate, even though the estimator for Allied’s Ace Moving and Storage promised to email one to me last ( Read more... )

I am moving into a condo, and I am thinking of getting a cell phone instead of or along with a standard phone. So which phones/companies would you recommend? Particularly those of you in the Omaha and Lincoln Nebraska area.

Buying a condo by myself, alone, without my late wife, feels like a gigantic mistake. But I guess I am doing it. The financing ( Read more... )

July 18th my mother-in-law had two medical tests run and failed the heart stress test. She stayed at the hospital overnight, and was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. So now she shouldn't go up or down stairs so she has to sell this house. So by this time next month all of my stuff should either be in storage and/or a new place. The odds of ( Read more... )

- National March for Peace, July 14th, 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Carter Lake Park, Omaha

Two college students are walking from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. to bring attention to peace, social justice and environmental well-being.  They are already in Utah, and since Omaha is about the mid-point of their trek, there will be a big rally ( Read more... )

I would like to take a moment to introduce you to Anat Fort, composer and pianist. As luck would have it all of my rock radio stations had talking heads babbling at the same time so I tuned in the public radio, and there she was playing from her album "Long Story."  I really think that she is going to be somebody, you heard it here first.

When the Old Magic King
Found
He could no longer hold
The babe beneath the water,
He turned
In pleading eye
To the white haired witch
Pleading, "Succor"
With gaunt arms raised
In invocation,
Tattered rags, sleeves
Falling into the shadow
Of the dark giant
As the Old Man
Quavers to his knees
Faced by a lean night
That he has not
The fired light
To expel
And the ( Read more... )