This Memorial Day weekend I am thinking about the men and women who died defending this great country of ours. Men and women from all races and religions. Immigrants and sons and daughters of immigrants. Descendants of the Mayflower and descendants of the first immigrants who crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago. They died… Continue reading Memorial Day 2016
Month: May 2016
Song of the Queen Bee
This poem by EB White was published in The New Yorker in 1945. This is one of my favorite poems -- funny, but with stiletto-sharp social commentary. SONG OF THE QUEEN BEE EB White "The breeding of the bee, says a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin on artificial insemination, "has always been handicapped by… Continue reading Song of the Queen Bee