Rhyme Of The Day

There were a couple of young rock festival attendees who wandered up to our office floor, looking for an actual women's bathroom. The r...

As a present for Samantha I purchased one pet pantha. I had him wrapped and taped, but somehow he escaped. If you see him running free, Plea...

It isn't very inviting to vote For folks who want to hold your throat. 

When does the Zika Olympics begin? Spray repellant on your skin And pray the skeeters don't delight In sucking out your blood at night!

Did the rain bring cool air? Or did a cold front cause precipitation? Whichever one it was, it improved the situation.

We saw a very funny production of The Importance of Being Earnest from the Dead Writers Theatre Collective, whose byline is "Classic T...

Why is it that I don't mind being awake in the heat but trying to sleep in it ends in defeat?

What? "A lemur, which potentially escaped from a nearby home, attacked a 21-year-old woman in Florida as she was leaving her home....

Freaky inflatable.  Marketing value debatable.

When your speechwriter hands you your text, Run it through a plagiarism checker next. It's a bit like buying a term paper online.  You w...

Is it 3, or 4, Or even more? At any rate there are lots of The brothers Karamazov. 

Gazing north across Lake Erie To Canada, in theory - A land where fields of cactus Are very rare, in practice.

Newborns: little mysteries we are holding While their natures are unfolding. 

I'm now a mere gaper At white water vapor - Gliding though clouds, In spectacular crowds.  As I fly beside them,  And even inside them, ...

The word is that the driver of the truck is dead. Shot to death. Which is fine with me. But from the point of view of poetic justice, he got...

It's two in the morning and Midway airport is strangely busy. I gather Chicago had storm activity during the day. My bag seems to be on ...

Michael Newberry at the lectern, before the start,  of his talk about art. In left foreground is a portrait of Pietros Maneos, by Michael Ne...

A landscape that's striking And much to my liking. 

Today I saw a lot of the Blue Angels, the Navy fighter jet "demonstration" team, zooming around the Gary Air Show in tight formati...

It's hard to see it from this photo, but the members of this small protest were mostly Caucasians, including the guy carrying a big Blac...