“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…
Thinking about stuff Along our way Yours Mine Perhaps theirs With or without a sigh Many might say, “who cares” Not I He, she, man or woman Not withstanding Rarely a smile Often a pout None bearing influence Void of clout Free from saying what they mean They spoke during the year 650 BC. It…
One morning I was asked, by a kid looking into a mirror, “What’s a trait?” That kid was me. Once again, I was guilty of a game I had devised many years prior to that morning; it’s called self-appraisal. An aside: Folks, if da harv was miraculously given a gift of pride, over his human…
If you need a disclaimer, here it is: I can probably guarantee that what follows will be almost impossible for you to understand. I, for certain, can’t explain the true meaning or creative effectiveness of my thoughts having been turned into an honest appraisal of their meaning. After all, my old gold stories stem from…
The date yesteryear was 1770 Or was it Known to all These 13 colonies The Revolutionary War Upon them Taxes too much Jobs too few Similar from yesteryear For me and for you Infamy in a way Our American future Then as now, it seems People having split dreams Or baffled by life With its…
It’s come and gone But this day of togetherness Will linger on Not only those who served We’re all veterans of America Reaping glory In what the founders prescribed Within our country’s Constitution “Independence Day” Hip, hip, Hurray!!! As being lived by da harv – HK – There is just nothing like being surrounded by…
PREFACE – FROM AN ACTOR’S LOG, AS DREAMED, 2:00 AM – It was such a nice little dream to be living! [It was our dreamer’s agent on the phone.] “Good news”, she said. “Remember that thing you recorded and sent off to Kalmenson & Kalmenson yesterday? Well, they just called to let me know they…
If it has become your intent, or you have succumbed to the wholesale indignity of suffering through the slings and arrows of what is referred to as the entertainment industry, then I beg of you: try breathing. I beg of you Then I beg of you again Try breathing Between you and nature alone A…
“Global Gadfly, That Would Be Me” Hello everybody, Today, as you may assume by my erstwhile title of the latest attempt at logic, this is coming at you regardless of the part of the world you happen to be in at this very minute. What you haven’t been told, or explained, I’m here to learn…
“Sh*t Happens” As they say… “In life, sh*t happens!” And when you become an aggravated recipient of the same, you might often feel like a receptacle for what a higher being ordered up for you. The older we become, the greater our chances are of having any number of games recklessly thrust upon us. For…