I wrote this in 9th grade. It won honorable mention in a local poetry contest. The Sixth of May On a beautiful morning, the sixth of May With the sunshine glowing, a wonderful day, With a breeze through the trees,        And a wind in the bog, Over the hill, with a kite,        Came… Continue reading

On Rich's recent trip to Santa Barbara, he attended a story-telling festival. One of the story tellers is Willy Claflin; Willy Claflin is "an award-winning master storyteller, school performer, festival performer, who also has produced five age-appropriate CDs and tapes of Willy Claflin songs and Maynard Moose tales". Actually, Willy doesn't tell many of the… Continue reading

Are you an expatriot Pennsylvanian? Do you miss the taste of lebanon bologna? Or scrapple? Do you know you can buy these tastes-of-home by mail?? www.lebanononline.org "Ask someone from outside the Lebanon Valley "what's the first thing they think of when they hear Lebanon?" and they'll probably say — Lebanon Bologna. Lebanon Bologna is now… Continue reading

Time to send out email to people to tell them the Blog is here. Friends and family can get their own blog. Other folks reading this are encouraged to surf to blogger.com (or install your own copy of greymatter, moveabletype, bloxsom, or… if you have your own server). Continue reading

I've just installed something new, a "web logger" (aka "blogger) called greymatter. I may put one into some other sites here. In any case, I'm still learning what I can do with this thing. Continue reading