Throwback Thursday: the Psychology Department in the 1988-1989 Mary Washington College “Meet the Faculty” book!

My Alumbud Deanna Hicks posted this to Facebook, and she gave me permission to share it. 🙂 Thanks Dee!

This would have been the year before the late Dr. Chris Kilmartin joined the faculty.

I had all of these professors except Dr.’s Corcoran and MacEwen.



“Orpheus”

Date unknown. “This remarkable painting was long considered to be the work of Jacques Louis David (1748-1825),” according to Wikimedia Commons. “More recent scholarship has however placed it among the so-called Barbus or Primitifs, a brief but fascinating association of painters from the studio of David, with whom Paul Duqueylard was closely linked.”

Ernest Hemingway’s illuminating 1934 letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Damn. That Ernest could be blunt.

This was sent to me by an awesome Longwood High School friend. (Thanks, Tim.)

Cover to “Batman” #378, Don Newton, Dick Giordano & Anthony Tollin, 1984

DC Comics.

I’ve got more issues than Newsweek.

(Still funny, though. Ya gotta gimme that.)

The latest is that the ball joint in my right hip feels like cocaine-crazed alpine marmots are biting and clawing at it. (They’re vicious little animals, by the way — never show ’em your back.)

It sucks getting old. (Though, as my father used to say, “it beats the alternative.”)



The Piker Press publishes my poem, “Orchard, Girl and Frost.”

The Piker Press today published my poem, “Orchard, Girl and Frost.” 🙂

You can find it right here.

As always, I’m grateful to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for founding this wonderful creative community!



Cover to “Dr. Fate” #1, Shawn McManus, 1988

DC Comics.

Jaine Sirieys reads “Blue!”

My amazing friend Jaine Sirieys performed a wonderful reading of my poem “Blue.” She has a beautiful voice and a lovely British accent. I’m so honored that she took the time to so capably interpret something that I authored. 🙂 ❤



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