Nows and Forevers

“What can be said in New Year rhymes,” wrote Ella Wheeler Wilcox in her poem “The Year,” in 1910, “That’s not been said a thousand times?” Fair point. I’m not sure about what I could say about new year’s that hasn’t been said before. But in this poem, written 113 years ago, there’s a lot… Continue reading

A lot of the people I’ve been following have been jumping to Post and to Mastadon lately after Twitter’s slow-motion implosion. Today, I became one of them.To be fair, I’ve had the invitation for a couple of weeks. Just with the holidays and also the aggravation with trying to learn a new social media network… Continue reading

For nearly 30 years, I’ve begun the year listening to Artie Shaw’s version of “Begin the Beguine.” I know it’s odd, but you could do worse than begin 2023 by listening to Artie Shaw. I didn’t expect to start my year with this song. It just sort of happened, one of those funny little traditions… Continue reading