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Word Cloud: JOCUND (Redux)
by Nona Blyth Cloud Survival sometimes hangs on unlikely skills. The Basilisk Lizard (Basiliscus basiliscus) has been dubbed ‘The Jesus Christ Lizard’ because it can run short distances on the surface of water when escaping from predators. The Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella) developed the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Denise Duhamel, Dorothy Parker, Edward Lear, Gelett Burgess, Jocund, Langston Hughes, Mother Goose, Shel Silverstein
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ON THIS DAY: August 22, 2018
August 22nd is Be an Angel Day * Eat a Peach Day Pecan Torte Day Tooth Fairy Day Take Your Cat to the Vet Day _________________________________________ MORE! Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker and Edvard Munch, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Althea Gibson, Ann Smith Franklin, Claude Debussy, Diane Setterfield, Dorothy Parker, Edvard Munch, Ray Bradbury
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Word Cloud: SWELTERING
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I don’t know what the weather is like where you are, but here, it’s too hot for serious poetry. So let’s take a look at some playful verse. It’s not too surprising that most funny poems … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Billy Collins, Dorothy Parker, James Leigh Hunt, Mary Ann Hoberman, Oliver Herford, Pam Ayres, Shel Silverstein, Sweltering
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ON THIS DAY: August 22, 2017
August 22nd is Be an Angel Day * Eat a Peach Day Pecan Torte Day Tooth Fairy Day National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker and Count Basie, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Althea Gibson, Annie Proulx, Claude Debussy, Count Basie, Dorothy Parker, Mary McGrory, Ray Bradbury
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Word Cloud: JOCUND
by Nona Blyth Cloud Survival sometimes hangs on unlikely skills. The Basilisk Lizard (Basiliscus basiliscus) has been dubbed ‘The Jesus Christ Lizard’ because it can run short distances on the surface of water when escaping from predators. The Greater Wax Moth … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Denise Duhamel, Dorothy Parker, Edward Lear, Gelett Burgess, Jocund, Langston Hughes, Mother Goose, Shel Silverstein
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Word Cloud: NOVEMBER
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD November. Depending on where you live, it’s still autumn, or already winter, or spring-into-summer if you’re south of the equator. Here in America, we’re going off Daylight Savings Time this weekend, and it will get dark … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Denise Levertov, Dorothy Parker, Hone Tuwhare, Lola Ridge and Tomas Tranströmer, Maggie Dietz, November, Rita Dove
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Word Cloud: SARDONIC
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.” “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” “I hate writing, I love having written.” “By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and … Continue reading
Posted in Estate Law, Humor, Literature, Movies, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Martin Luther King Jr, NAACP, Sardonic, The New Yorker
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