by Nora Hutton Shepard | Nov 24, 2021 | Arts & Entertainment, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS First Taxonomies Of course Adam exhausted himself.He named: fig, fern, orangutan, mica, mayfly,and then— clouds, cumulus and nimbus,Aardvarks, apiaries, aphrodisiacs, applesnaming by alphabet or phylum:vegetables: rutabaga, beets, and artichoke. He...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Nov 1, 2021 | News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Widow’s Fire On dogs of tarnished brass you laid our fire—lightwood and oak piled over paper. You’d spentall morning splitting logs; in your torn red shirtyou sharpened wedges, swung the maul higher,drove the steel true to the grain. It...
by Jody Seymour | Jul 13, 2021 | News, The Written Word, Top Left Box
Search for: THE WRITTEN WORD Bloody Again So, it seems that someone out there is not happy with Jesus. One or many drove by this statue of Jesus in front of a church and threw red paint all over his welcoming stance. What they did not know is that his arms were spread...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jun 22, 2021 | Local, The Written Word, Voices of Davidson
Search for: VOICES OF DAVIDSON Thank You, Vasili Arkhipov Thank You, Vasili Arkhipov October 27, 1962 The world, booked in alphabetical order, lined the shelves of the dimly lit den where my brother and I...
by Barbara Conrad | May 13, 2021 | Arts & Entertainment, Bottom Middle Box, News, The Written Word
Search for: THE WRITTEN WORD On the Road to Dun Aengus On the Road to Dun Aengus Earthy smell of cattle dung and salty airas we bike along a path marked with stone walls,walls stacked some 3000 years ago. No one’s sweat but our own this day,and that of other...
by Ione (Tootsie) O’Hara | Apr 8, 2021 | The Written Word
Search for: THE WRITTEN WORD Ode to Paper Cranes Sadako Sasaki, age two when the bomb fell on Hiroshima, became ill with leukemia ten years later. She folded 644 paper cranes. Japanese legendsays fold a thousandpaper cranesyour heart’s wishwill be granted My...
