A couple months ago, I fell in love with a younger woman, a much younger woman. A girl, really. Well, actually, a baby. She was born a little after four o’clock on a Monday afternoon, and, although I’d known she was on her way, I was astonished...
Back in 2011, my future daughter-in-law Tara Ruccolo took on the challenge to set up a website for her boyfriend’s technologically challenged father. It was a simple thing that debuted on July 23 of that year with a review of Terry...
The novels that Elmore Leonard published in the final decade of his life were often all but plotless. That’s not to say that things didn’t happen, but there was a loosey-goosey feel to the action in the books. These last handful of books give the...
Bill Walker was once described by a top art historian as the most accomplished contemporary artist working in the classical mural tradition, spanning from Giotto in 14th century Italy to Diego Rivera in 20th century Mexico. His work was compared...
Logan’s Run, published in 1967 by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson is a clever science-fiction novel about a world that has been twisted out of shape by the solution to a catastrophic problem. The problem was the over-population of the...
Wait By Patrick T. Reardon I wait for the stone to pass, for the heel to heal, for the tick to tock. I wait out the clock. Unnoticed, the grubs and snits, the moist soil where the bell tulip rots. I wait for the...
City hymn By Patrick T. Reardon Hymn the sewer line. Hymn the rhythm. Hymn mown grass, dawn-sun broken glass, ash tray brass, my scar, the rusted-nail fall. Hymn the sink hole. Hymn girder. Hymn cinder alley, maggot alley, the basketball-rimmed...
Brick wall scripture By Patrick T. Reardon Read the brick wall scripture. Fingertip the prophecy braille. Shakespeare wrote a Bible of plays. Macbeth’s sin (3 Samuel). Lear’s rage against the pain (Job). Iago, more evil than Judas. Will...
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