“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men” The poem was first written by Robert Burns, the Scottish Shakespeare. “The best laid plans of mice and men” comes from a poem entitled “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns. The expression was then popularized by the 1937 novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. In…
…Not as if I wasn’t selfishly in search of an upper. I honestly didn’t think at the time I was in search of anything at all. I can remember one particular day, many years ago, when it appeared to me that my mom was down in the mouth about something. When I questioned her about…
Fond Memories Ethel Waters was born in 1896. My father, Charles Kalmenson, was born in 1902. Harvey Kalmenson, that would be me, came along in 1933. I have many fond memories of the wondrous roads I’ve been lucky enough to trespass on during my life to date. I use the depiction as that of a…