Marc JohnsonJun 26, 20189 minAnd then it was too late…“This is the United States of America. It isn’t Nazi Germany.” – Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), in an interview on MSNBC, about the Trump ...
Marc JohnsonJun 26, 20189 minAnd then it was too late…“This is the United States of America. It isn’t Nazi Germany.” – Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), in an interview on MSNBC, about the Trump ...
Marc JohnsonNov 1, 20134 minAre You Listening?Here’s a prediction. When the history of the Obama Administration is written, the admittedly monumental screw ups with the health insuran...
Marc JohnsonAug 30, 20133 minSeamus Heaney, 1939 – 2013One wonders why Ireland, a country with 4.5 million people, has produced so many of history’s greatest men – yes, mostly men – of letters...
Marc JohnsonFeb 14, 20121 minWhen in DisgraceThe Bard, we think, wrote his 29th sonnet around about 1592 at a time when he was deeply troubled by something. Perhaps it was the closur...
Marc JohnsonApr 8, 20111 minPoetry MonthIn celebration of National Poetry Month – I love that poetry month coincides with the start of the baseball season – a great little poem ...
Marc JohnsonFeb 6, 20112 minMore Billy CollinsMy lanyard wearing mom was born on this day in 1922. I miss her every day. The Lanyard by Billy Collins The other day I was ricocheting s...
Marc JohnsonJan 14, 20111 minBilly CollinsWhen I saw the story that Idaho’s State School Superintendent Tom Luna had pulled a pop history quiz on lawmakers on the legislature’s ed...
Marc JohnsonJan 6, 20102 minThe Poetry of CitiesIt is the birthday of the poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg born January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois. Twice winner of the Puli...
Marc JohnsonNov 23, 20091 minThe ChoiceFor me the answer is easy – W.B. Yeats. In December 1923, nearly 86 years ago, Yeats won the Nobel Prize for literature and made much of...
Marc JohnsonNov 2, 20091 minAll SoulsOn All Souls Day, a remembrance of those we love and live among us in memory, two poems by John Updike and W.B. Yeats. I can’t get this l...
Marc JohnsonNov 2, 20091 minAll SoulsOn All Souls Day, a remembrance of those we love and live among us in memory, two poems by John Updike and W.B. Yeats. I can’t get this l...