Here’s another thing I like about NPR. Every morning, just about 9:00, Garrison Keiler reads a poem and tells me what happened today in the lives of writers current and past. There’s the link as well as today’s poem. I like it.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
The Good Nights
by Joseph Mills
On the good nights
when the bottle’s empty
we always want
just a little [...]
I had a dicken’s of a time getting a picture of Crystal for this post. Don’t google her, it’s weird.
Brief History:
I met Crystal just a few short years ago. Maybe just 2. She and I are both from Norfolk, though I had come to Lincoln already by the time she set foot on Nebraska soil. [...]
Brief History:
I met Gina at a Bible Study I was leading in the summer of 2005. She and her husband Scott had just moved to Lincoln from Texas. I felt like I connected with her like a bumble bee and and an open can of Coke. We quickly found out we had quite a bit [...]
Joie and I made the road trip trek from Lincoln to Atlanta. We left Wednesday around 2 p.m. and pulled into Shalimar Drive (my brother’s street in Atlanta) around 7 a.m. Nebraska time. On the way we saw: cars, Covenant Seminary, the Arch in St. Louis, Covenant College in Chattanooga, TN, Nashville, TN, McDonald’s, KENTUCKY!!! [...]
Brief History: I met Joie in 2003 upon returning from Zambia. She was to be my roommate, and we would share a closet. After out other two roommates married (not each other), we moved down the street into an apartment, in which we shared a room and a closet. Eight months or so later, we [...]
This morning, in the dark, on the front door rug, when I let Cash out to go pottie.
Charity
Brief History: We first met while I was home on a 3 week furlough from Zambia. She came over when I cooked Zambian food. Lou thought we’d really connect. Upon returning home permanently from Zambia she became my roommate. However, I didn’t recall ever having met her before. We were roommates for just shy of [...]
Rebecca. Her name starts with R, so I thought it would be appropriate for her to go next.
Brief History: I met Rebecca in 2003 after returning from Zambia. She and her husband lived right next door to my roommates and I on 8th Street. There was way more history there than I realized. She quickly [...]
