Old Ones Dream

The First Day of the First Grade

My memory of when our world was new is less cluttered than the sea of activity and emotion of later years. I remember the first day of the first grade. We were only about a dozen and all sitting in the grass in the sunshine by the big Hackberry tree... Read more →

No Rule Made in Columbia Goes Unbent in the City of Charleston

“It’s tempting to say, and probably true, that no rule made by Paris goes unbent in the city of Marseille”. That is the opening sentence of Marseille’s Melting Pot in the March 2012 National Geographic Magazine, by Christopher Dickey. Dickey is widely published and is the son of the poet... Read more →