Tag Archives: 2025

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Happy New Year!!!

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Wishing all of you Happiness, Health and Prosperity in 2026!

French New Year’s greeting card, 1910

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Poetry and commentary, 2025

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The past year was the best ever for poetry and commentary, with publications in the United States, Britain, Ireland, Germany, India and  Bangladesh — along with a short story publication in Chile.

You can find all the links to my 2025 poetry and commentary at the link below. Thanks for coming along for the ride.  🙂

Poetry and Commentary, 2025

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Poster for “Welcome to Derry” Season 1, 2025

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HBO.

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Christmastime in Roanoke, Virginia

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2025.

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Happy Thanksgiving, All! :-)

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Cover to LIFE Magazine, November 22, 1923

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Cover to Joan Aiken’s “The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase,” artwork by Corinne Reid, 2025

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Penguin Random House (United Kingdom Branch).

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Happy Veterans Day to all who served.

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And thank you.

Service members prepare the State and Territorial Cordon outside the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Nov. 11, 2023. This was part of the 70th National Veterans Day Observance. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released)

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Happy Halloween, all!!

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Be good.  Don’t drink and drive.  Don’t egg my house.

(Cartoon by David Revoy.)

Photo credit: David Revoy, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

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Care for a little spooky poetry for the Halloween season?

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Then check out Local Gems Press’ new Halloween-themed anthology — Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025.  You can order it from Amazon at the link below:

Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025

(If you do purchase the book, I hope that you’ll peruse my poem about ghosts around Roanoke, “This Windy Morning.”)

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My poem “This Windy Morning” will be included in Local Gems Press’ annual Halloween anthology!

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I’m thrilled to share here that a poem of mine will be included in this year’s installment of Local Gems Press’ annual Halloween anthology, Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025.

The poem is “This Windy Morning,” and I am grateful to Maddie McGivney and Bards President James P. Wagner for letting me join the holiday fun.  🙂

You can preorder a copy of the book, if you wish, right here at the Local Gems Press website.