KEEP ON SINGING
Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son,…
MEAN MOM
I had the meanest mother in the whole world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs or toast. When…
When you thought I wasn’t looking.
A message every adult should read, because children are watching you and doing as you do, not as you say. When you thought I wasn’t…
A Soldier Died Today.
He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast, And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past. Of a…
THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS-CHRISTMAS STORY.
The Christmas of 1949 we didn’t have a tree. My dad had as much pride as anybody, I suppose, so he wouldn’t just say that…
In search of song writers, singers and composers.
I write songs, poems and short stories. Both in Hindi and English. We have posted about fifty songs in English sung by my friend Henry…
Semper Fi
LELAND DIRKS – AUTHOR·SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2018·3 MINUTES Night comes early in November. The sun sets far south and the shadows are long. Not as…
Favorite Recipes and Clogged Arteries and Diabetes
Favorite recipes for the season and clogged arteries and diabetes, takes a lot of the fun away or does it? I don’t want to give…
THE LAND THAT MADE ME, ME.
Long ago and far away, In a land that time forgot, Before the days of Dylan, Or the dawn of Camelot. There lived a race…
CHRISTMAS AT THE GAS STATION.
The old man sat in his gas station on a cold Christmas Eve. He hadn’t been anywhere in years since his wife had passed away.…