Who Needs Green Grass?

I'd been thinking about this topic for a long time - at least since I had my own home - how it pains me to take care of the yard, and especially mowing, and watering, and fertilizing, and thinking about the lawn. It's just excessive... Is it not?

Anyway, this op-ed on the subject is running in the Courant tomorrow.

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/hc-op-polochanin-fertilizing-lawn-is-a-fools-game--20130510,0,1309089.story

Why I Love Fenway Park

I am clearly oversimplifying this, but I'm watching the Sox play tonight and a batter sliced a ball, foul, into the right field box seats, and there, among the fans battling for it on this cool April night were a guy still wearing his suit, a priest, and a dude wearing a Mark Bellhorn jersey.

None of them came up with the ball, but where else would you be able to find this combination of people coexisting?

UConn Fellowship Blog Part III

Reading poetry inspires writing poetry. My third blog, as part of my fellowship at UConn.

http://blogs.lib.uconn.edu/archives/2013/04/18/insight-on-a-fellowship-2/

UConn Fellowship Blog Part II

Here's the second blog installment I've done during my fellowship at UConn on 'The Psychology of Writing.'

http://blogs.lib.uconn.edu/nclc/2013/02/28/insights-on-a-fellowship-2/

UConn Fellowship Blog Pt I

Here's a link to a blog I'm doing at UConn right now through my work at the Dodd Center and the New England Children's Literature Collection. This is the first in a series, in which I explore how productive great writers are, and that a writer's drive and motivation can supercede one's talent.

http://blogs.lib.uconn.edu/nclc/2013/02/07/insights-on-a-fellowship/

Published Poetry!

I am happy to report that the March issue of the journal Toasted Cheese -- I know, cool name (and a very good journal, too)-- includes two of my poems, 'Perspective' and 'Love Poem.' The magazine has exclusive rights to the material for the first 90 days after publication, so I can't repost the poetry on my blog, but I can include a link to the poetry, which you can read by clicking here.

Most popular post

It's now official: people are more interested in reading how John McCain looks like Mr. Roper than anything else on this blog. Crazy, but true.

Never thought that would be the case when I wrote that blog entry, on Oct. 25, 2008, which could be seen by clicking here.

Roper-McCain, read now 147 times, eclipsed my post of Billy Collins' eponymous poem 'The Names', which has been read 146 times. 'The Names' can be read here.

The next most popular post was titled 'The Fall Of Foxwoods', a link to a Boston Globe story about the downfall of Foxwoods Casino, in Mashantucket, CT, read 82 times.