David's Blog

I'm pleased to be named to the Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau for 2023-24. I'll be talking to schools, civic groups,...

I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. This is 15/52. Listening to Music While Working Outdoors My wife hates these...

"Dobro" is actually a brand name for a type of instrument (a "resonator guitar") invented by the Slovenian immigrant John Dopyera and his...

I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. This is 4/52. Bus haiku #6 The bus door closes with a sigh. Should she run to it?...

Music writer Greil Marcus coined that phrase for a "strange yet familiar backdrop to our common cultural history," the "playground of...

I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. This is 14/52. While Working in the Garden I Uncover Evidence Of An Advanced...

I wandered into Portland just after the explosion of Mount Saint Helens on May 18, 1980, about fifty miles northeast of that city. The...

I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. This is 12/52. For anyone who's ridden a bike in city traffic. Bike Lane I saw...

It's baseball season and if you're a fan, your favorite major league team will have 162 chances, plus playoffs and the Series, to thrill...

I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. This is 11/52. When I rode the city bus, I wrote a haiku each day. ---- Bus Haiku...

Every Friday when I arrive at school, the cafeteria at Harrison elementary is buzzing with a chatter of a hundred third and fourth...

An errata is a loose-leaf list of corrections placed in a book after it's been published. I wondered if you could tell a different story...