Letters from a Hill Farm

I wanted to end my April poetry in songwriting with Van the Man. I think he should be taught in college poetry classes. I've spent a fai...

One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.    Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809) The character Lionel Hardcastle u...

I know that some of you have left Blogspot and moved to Wordpress. I have so many concerns - the main one being will all my content come w...

Grandchildren are a grandparent's link to the future. Grandparents are the child's link to the past. Pop with Campbell Walker an...

This song was popular when I was still in high school, and I so loved it. Many years later, when our little Margaret arrived from South Kore...

The plane crash in 1959 which killed the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, and Richie Valens was one of the early sadnesses of my life. I was a few w...

Here is another song for poetry month. This is also known as Wild Mountain Thyme , and Purple Heather. Y ou may read about its origins here ...

Here's another post offering poetry in songwriting. If pressed, I think I might say that One For My Baby , written by Harold Arlen and J...

April is poetry month and though I may not post every day, I will write as often as possible. I plan to share poetry in songwriting. The fir...

'Tis a month before the month of May, and the spring comes slowly up this way. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge's words are...

Many years ago I read something my mother had cut out of a newspaper. I've thought about it occasionally and wondered if I still had it....

Spring begins tomorrow at 5.29 am my time, and this is the book I plan to begin reading. I've read the first three and so loved them...

Blackbirds! The red-winged blackbirds came today when we'd just had a big snowstorm. They ate from the feeders, and the food spread on t...

From the British television series, Born and Bred . So very worth buying from Amazon UK. If you are in the US, you need to have a DVD pla...

This warm weather is bringing the chickens outdoors again, and they were delighted to find that we are feeding the birds again ! They often ...

Did you see this on the Grammys? I LOVE this song, and I've ordered the record Ripcord . I bet you can't stay in your chair while yo...

One of the things that goes along with the shift from agricultural to urban in this country is that the old sayings most likely make no sens...

Not the world's best photographs but top to bottom are the icicles out the north window. In the last one, you can see that they are touc...