Spark and Spitfire

Thanks, W.S. Merwin

Sharon J. Anderson

  • Thanks, W.S. Merwin

    W.S. Merwin, whose poems about the fragility of the natural world and the horrors of the Vietnam War earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and made him one of the preeminent English-language poets of the past five decades, died March 15… Continue reading

    Thanks, W.S. Merwin

  • Luck O’the Irish Timed Test #2

    What do “lepre-kittens” sleep on all day on St. Patrick’s Day? That’s right! Pati O’Furniture! Thank you for your forbearance for that joke and for the last of three post tests this morning. I have timed this particular post test… Continue reading

    Luck O’the Irish Timed Test #2

  • Luck O’the Irish Timed Test

    The “lepre-kitten” is scheduling this post to see if the updated evil plugin works when I walk away. If you are reading this and didn’t receive an email notification, please check your spam/junk box. I’m looking away. Continue reading

    Luck O’the Irish Timed Test

  • Luck O’the Irish Test

    Yes, the image is a “lepre-kitten” (thank you, Wendy), and if you received an email notification for this test post, you are one of the lucky Spark and Spitfire subscribers. (Yes, there was yet another update to the unlucky plugin.)… Continue reading

    Luck O’the Irish Test

  • Ignite 3/15/19 #2 (Test)

    Knock, knock . . . BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!! Continue reading

    Ignite 3/15/19 #2 (Test)

  • Ignite 3/15/19

    Knock, knock . . . beware the IDES OF MARCH!!! Continue reading

    Ignite 3/15/19

  • Selling Your Soul

    What’s worse? Wealthy parents paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their kids into prestigious universities and colleges? Or being paid $1,000 to write an admission essay for the son of a wealthy man? I wrote that admissions essay.… Continue reading

    Selling Your Soul

  • Ignite 3/8/19

    It’s Friday, so why the long face? Quit stalling. Let’s have some unbridled enthusiasm for this week’s Ignite cartoons! Continue reading

    Ignite 3/8/19

  • Little Lighthouses

    Ever perfunctorily greet and walk past a stranger at 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning who then yells after you, ‘Hey! What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve seen this morning?” Stunned, I told the stranger about the adult and adolescent… Continue reading

    Little Lighthouses

  • Ignite 3/1/19

    It’s been said that a good man is hard to find . . . Continue reading

    Ignite 3/1/19