The ongoing terror and ongoing shame in our nation regarding the plague of mass shootings and widespread sorrow of gun violence just keeps g...

It's a beautiful day, the sky falls/ And you feel like it's a beautiful day/ It's a beautiful day/ Don't let it get away... ...

I read the news today oh, boy About a lucky man who made the grade... - "A Day In the Life" The Beatles I was a wee lad of ten yea...

GODDAMN YOU 2020 WITH ALL THIS CELEBRITY DEATH, MAKING 2016 LOOK LIKE A PARTY RIGHT NOW. No. No no no. I saw the news while wrapping up thi...

I wrote this five years ago , about what happened in Gainesville at University of Florida: We shouldn't forget the lives taken that didn...

On top of all the nightmares - the pandemic, the mass unemployment, the escalating decay of America's global standing, the purging of fe...

From Flanders Field, this. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,     That mark our place; and in the s...

Just as I was getting off work tonight, I heard breaking news that Peter Mayhew passed away . You might remember him as this: CHEWIE ...

Whoa! WHOA! I was at a training session at Winter Haven Public Library when I saw a tweet go out. Gene Wilder died?!?! DAMN YOU 2016! ...

Today is August 1st, and I've been reminded that today is the 50th anniversary of a major tragedy in our nation's history. From th...

So I was helping a library patron with his laptop syncing to iPod when the patron's phone blinked. News flash: Prince died . Ju...

It pains me that I can't remember the names of the two ladies I was working with at the Broward Library's technology center that Tue...

There is a wall on 34th Street in Gainesville Florida reserved for graffiti.  Technically, it's illegal to vandalize walls, but the loca...

Yeah, time of the year again, when thoughts turn to love and single people look out at the world surrounded by couples hooking up and saying...

And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said:  "For hate is strong,  And mocks the song Of peace ...

As I'd mentioned to my friends on Facebook, and through postings on other forums and on my writer's blog , last night I had to let g...

Today was a bad day all around - even without considering the flooding disaster that is Colorado - when we found our nation handling yet ano...

As a student of history and a student of the Sixties, I do my bit to write about the '69 Woodstock Festival once every year on its Anniv...