English literature
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Flag Day, a birthday
Yesterday wasn’t just Flag Day. Wednesday was what would have been the 83rd birthday of my eighth-grade English teacher, Kathy Clark. Amazing what you remember, isn’t it? Been a long time since I was an 8th grader at Coronado Middle School in Coronado, California. I was a transfer student from Connecticut, just me and my Continue reading
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Back to John Donne
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/15/plague-poems-defiant-wit-and-penis-puns-why-john-donne-is-a-poet-for-our-times?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR0L2GcS1m_lQv3CKViZSLwaKEEWzPBAP6uOv7p_SbVJjT3pQ6dVtMsHsNc I have my Westbrook (Connecticut) High School English teacher Jan Hart to thank for introducing me to John Donne, as she introduced me to so much of value in my junior year of high school. Donne has followed me ever since, whether it’s lines of his poetry I read from time to time, the Continue reading
About Me
Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
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