Children’s Story: Rumplescowlson

Children’s Story: Rumplescowlson

 When Marcus’s mother took him with her to town to buy groceries, Marcus was disgusted by an old man outside the store.  The man’s face was all twisted, his nose was scrunched up like a giant raisin, his pants were rumpled and torn, his socks were mismatched and his...
Children’s Story: Horace Cucumber

Children’s Story: Horace Cucumber

  Though you hurry away, it’s a brief delay:three scattered handfuls of earth will free you.  Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) * Horace Cucumber rolled down the steep garden path of John Winthrop’s hillside garden ripping off pieces of his green skin on the sharp...
Reading in the Time of COVID

Reading in the Time of COVID

 solamen miseris socios habuisse doláis   (misery loves company)  Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus “There is no way I’m going back to Mexico. I can’t stand to be in a country that is more surrealist than my paintings”.  Salvadore Dali At Think in...