As we get closer to the Fourth of July holiday, I like to teach my children patriotic poems that I memorized from my school days. Since they’re currently five, they most enjoy funny poems (especially double dactyls, like this one). When I looked online for the author’s name for a poem I distinctly [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Patriotic Poetry Gone Awry…
Posted in Poems, tagged family traditions, Fourth of July, Poems on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Patriotic Poetry
Posted in Poems, tagged Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Patriotic poems, Poems on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As we approach the Fourth of July, I’m beginning to turn to great patriotic poems. I first heard this poem watching the made-for-TV-movie, The First Olympics. One of the characters, a marathon runner, used the meter of the poem to set his running rhythm. The first stanza is one that frequently pops into my head.
Paul [...]
Are you a broken camel?
Posted in Politics, Questions, tagged Bear Stearns Bailout, defense spending, entitlement spending, Iraq War, national debt, Politics on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve all heard the phrase, “the straw that broke the camel’s back”. Well, my final straw has come. I never intended to be interested in politics (after all, aren’t “political women” the ones that never shave their pits and either chain themselves to trees or march downtown singing “We Will Overcome”?). I [...]
