A poem by Billy Collins. Performed by Billy Collins. With some help from Hollywood.
July 2026 Reading
July for me is usually split in two as far as reading goes. There are the first three weeks that are "normal" and there is the las...
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Every year I read other people's "best of" lists but I've never done one myself. I'm a little ambivalent about the wor...
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*Part of my continuing blog series leading up to the 250 th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis in February 2014. In October...
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Since it is Independence Day I thought I would republish a story from long ago. This is the story of the family of my paternal grandmother w...