PROM PROMISES

Lucy Cortese August 8, 2024

us: Dance, dance, dancehim: Pretty Womanme: My Guyhim: Baby, I need your lovingme: Can’t buy me lovehim: The times they are a’changingme: I want to

Let’s Go Dance – Kurt Vonnegut

Glenn Shuck April 22, 2024

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t

JOHNNY DAZE

Lucy Cortese April 4, 2024

Setting: Johnny sleeping in bed. His mother enters the bedroom. Mother: Johnny dear, Time to get up and get ready for school. Johnny: (he turns

SUNSHINE STATE CHRISTMAS

Lucy Cortese December 19, 2023

YULETIDE IN FLORIDA, WHAT A SIGHT TO BEHOLDTEMPS IN THE 80s WHILE YANKS HAVE FREEZING COLDNO WHITE STUFF FALLING, PALM TREES ALL GREENBLIZZARDS DOWN HERE

WINGED WISDOM

Lucy Cortese October 24, 2023

“She’s in heaven with the angels,” I responded to my grandson’s question about the passing of my mother. Weeks later when the three-year-old returned from

ONCE A MAN, TWICE A CHILD

Lucy Cortese October 12, 2023

Old age recycles the bodyInfant once pink turns blueNature recalls with rapid speedTo complete life’s circle anew Fuzzy hairs on baldy topSteps and thoughts are

An Enduring Affair with Hot Dogs

Jeffrey Spear September 26, 2023

For those of you who remember the Patty Duke Show, a television sitcom that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1966, the opening theme song

ABCs of why Jacksonville is a Southern city…

Lucy Cortese August 28, 2023

ATTITUDE: Jacksonville folks are quick to reply with the cordial “yes ma’am, no sir, or bless your little heart.” They are just as likely to

Our Obsession with “New”

Jeffrey Spear August 3, 2023

We are inundated with stories, television shows, blogs, recipes, hacks and a neverending stream of social media posts that obsessively focus on “what’s new” or

Hypothesis of Generosity

Steve Piscitelli July 19, 2023

So, I pulled myself off the too-often-climbed-on ledge of self-righteous upset and took a deep breath and waited. ~~~~~ “Where are they?” Like most craftsmen

ARBOREAL LAMENT

Lucy Cortese June 19, 2023

Icrywe diewe stood talldaily we all fallmy friend the mighty oaktrunk and limbs lying brokeleafy forests now burn and slashcrumbling into mounting piles of ashsmell

CASINO CRUISE CATASTROPHE

Lucy Cortese June 14, 2023

Flying saucers, toppling chairs, seniors stumbling everywhereBottle rockets full of rum and Jose Cuervo shooting into air St. Johns angry, choppy, spitting, each white cap

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PROM PROMISES

Let’s Go Dance – Kurt Vonnegut

JOHNNY DAZE

SUNSHINE STATE CHRISTMAS

WINGED WISDOM

ONCE A MAN, TWICE A CHILD

An Enduring Affair with Hot Dogs

ABCs of why Jacksonville is a Southern city…

Our Obsession with “New”

Hypothesis of Generosity

ARBOREAL LAMENT

CASINO CRUISE CATASTROPHE

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