Monthly Archives: June 2010

The Best and Brightest

Posted on June 30, 2010 by CitizenPoet

    George Burns once observed that it was too bad that the folks who really knew how to run this country were busy cutting hair and driving taxis. Given that tidbit, it’s easy to come up with a little … Continue reading →

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Smoke this House

Posted on June 26, 2010 by CitizenPoet

    Carol is not only an editor of textbooks from ESL to supplemental science and English, she maintains her critical skills by teaching English to foreign students through our local library and over the years, it turns out that … Continue reading →

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Good Help Is Hard to Find

Posted on June 25, 2010 by CitizenPoet

  Here is the opening paragraph of a short story that I am thinking about writing. If you feel challenged, go ahead and see what you can do. I would love to read your take.       One thing … Continue reading →

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Twice upon a Murder

Posted on June 24, 2010 by CitizenPoet

   The short story that I have published this week is based on a news story that I found remarkably amusing, so much so that other than change the setting from England to someplace in the United States, a locale … Continue reading →

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Apologia

Posted on June 18, 2010 by CitizenPoet

BP CEO Tony Hayward no doubt intended his “I am deeply sorry” apology to resonate before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday, but it quickly lost its steam with GOP Texas Rep. Joe Barton’s stunning apology to BP for … Continue reading →

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Paths

Posted on June 15, 2010 by CitizenPoet

  Random footfalls on the forest floor, here Where some lead, some follow, no path’s there Until time and concourse make a new path appear.

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Working for Tomorrow

Posted on June 14, 2010 by CitizenPoet

      We have just come off of two busy weekends and finally catching up on some much needed rest. Carol and I went to Democratic State Convention in Worster June 5 to renominate Governor Deval Patrick and Lt. … Continue reading →

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Readers Interested in Cherokee History and Culture

Posted on June 9, 2010 by CitizenPoet

    I am getting a lot of questions about the Cherokee as a result of my story, A Cherokee Dying, and I will try to answer as many as I can. But, in the meantime, we are very lucky … Continue reading →

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A Cherokee Dying

Posted on June 7, 2010 by CitizenPoet

   Tonight, I published a new short story, A Cherokee Dying. Or, to read this and other stories and poems, you can go to my website, Citizen Poet, and click the short story link.     The Cherokee Indian Reservation … Continue reading →

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A Choice of Words

Posted on June 6, 2010 by CitizenPoet

During an interlude in the Massachusetts Democratic Convention which I attended as a delegate today, I was asked a strange question by a woman who happens to have read one of my books recently and like many fans, is curious … Continue reading →

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