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neither black nor white,
but all shades between
by turns. Nothing is sure.”
— Gladys Hasty Carroll
We waved bye bye to this year's January at midnight and cautiously welcomed February, the shortest month, hoping for warmer weather. But, then we are one of those who tenaciously long for summer, whatever the month. Only a few of our incoming compositions discussed weather and quite casually then.
Four of our wonderful poets are each represented by three
poems so we can present our readers with a nice rounded dozen. Walt
Perryman's three are "As Old As I Am", "Fine Thursday Ramble", and "Old
One About Children." Bud Lemire's poems are "Freeze Me!" "I Ask My
Cousin," and the triumphant "Cherokee Daughter."
Bruce Clifford shows "Before You," "I Love Her More," and
"Lipstick Girl." The three encores by John I Blair are "Daniel Boone and
Me," "What Is It About Cats?" and "The Year We Had A Crazy Neighbor."
Mattie Lennon of Dublin Ireland discusses in his column
"Irish Eyes," writers and all types of writing they do, and how they can
research their craft. He tells us about an upcoming treat, "The Marian
Hotel" and describes it as a powerful stage drama. Pauline Evanosky's column "Woo Woo" encourages those interested in finding or increasing their own psychic abilities to ease up and approach it in a simple manner.
Judith Kroll's column "On Trek" has her recalling a chat
where various people were adamantly expressing their opinion,
unsurprisingly about a subject no one knew what the correct answer could
be. Marilyn Carnell's subject in "Sifoddling Along" points out how
where one grew up inevitably adds to their vocabulary.
The column "Introspective" has an interesting explanation by
author Thomas F. O'Neill, of Spirituality and Religion and how they
differ. Melinda Cohenour's "Armchair Genealogy" includes personal
information that family trees can now include within Ancestry, for
instance. Her recipe in the column "Cooking with Rod's Family" is a long
time favorite.
Mike Craner's column "Mike's Place" explains how actual
memories can be diluted or enhanced while dreaming. He advises that
incidents, events, and such memory making occasions be recorded while
the facts are fresh.
It is nice to have our co-founder and webmaster present for
this first issue of the new Volume 29 of Pencil Stubs Online. He does
manage to stay pretty busy doing such interesting things as being the
Santa for train excursions during the holidays. We are always grateful
that he keeps our eZine functioning.
We look forward to seeing you in the March issue of Pencil Stubs Online.
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