Mama polar bear with her Cub. (Photograph by Norbert Rosing from Global Animal.org) 

Mother’s Day is one of the most brilliant holidays in the world. It would probably do all of us a lot of good though to remember that human beings are not the…

It's HERE! It's FINALLY here! My very first book of poetry, art, and photography is here, ready to imbibe!!! Oh, HAPPY DAY!!!!!! Thank you, Avenue U Publications and Lewis Crystal for believing in me, supporting my works, and making me SMILE!!!!! :)…

              The legendary Ray Charles with the legendary Ahmet Ertegun (photo by Fred Prouser for Reuters)

“God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity…

For the memory of Leoni Keating, James Bulger, Holly Wells, Jessica Chapman, Amanda Dowler and so many others in the news then and now....

                                                       (UNESCO International Jazz Day poster)

Talk about jazz clubs, jazz concerts, or jazz festivals and Istanbul, Turkey, is not the first city that comes to most people’s minds.  Most (on the continental U.S. at…

First Lady of Song Ella Fitzgerald swinging with the band at The Downbeat Club in New York City, 1949. (photo by Herman Leonard from Sanatblog.com)





The following post was originally presented as…

Today could very well be called Poems Everywhere Day since poems are popping up on lunch bags, billboards, in emails, slipped into purses, and yes, tucked into pockets. Carrying only one seemed  insufficient to me so I chose two favorites. This is the first one:…

                                    (official Poem in Your Pocket logo by American Academy of Poets)

“Dedicated artists, innovators, and stewards of our language, they tell us not only who we are, but also who we can become. They distill our…

                                                  (photo of Louis C. Taylor by Associated Press)

“The whole world knows I’m innocent.” --Louis C. Taylor…

                                Author Maya Angelou putting pen to paper. (photo courtesy of Lipstick Alley)

With all the high-profile respect Maya Angelou gets from people like Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey you’d think she already won the Nobel Prize…

On My 30^th Summer

Overwhelming blessings have showered me

Myriad moments of laughter and sadness

With a million minds  I have met

With a family of five I have set.

While this wonderful world keeps moving on

I shall share my talents and gifts willingly

I shall pursue my noble plans passionately

Hoping to be the best He wants me to be

While this wonderful world keeps moving on

I shall…

My Garden.......

My small garden is a place, where love birds,…

                             Anti-war protesters in Madrid, Spain, 2003. (photo by Scanpix and NBC News)

“A vision of humanity as a unified force for peace had come alive in the form of millions of living breathing souls and an…

                        The Poppies by Jaanika Talts (watermarked image, all rights reserved by the artist)

“The Universe said, ‘let me show your soul something beautiful.’”…

Awareness>Consciousness>Perception, it is a moebius strip of reflection, a recursive cycle of indeterminate definitions of an internal mental function wherein observational functionalism and analytic reasoning work to define within and navigate through the boundaries of…

Poets (left to right): the late great Gerald Chan Sieg, Lee Alexander, and the late Captain Richard Vernon.  (archive photo from the Georgia Guardian)

Presented on Creative Thinkers International in honor of World Poetry Day 2013:…

"In Hypnotic Trance"

Please, sit and listen, the heart beats compassion;

The starving soul cries out for love and fairness...

— The key to the door — of world peace is justice!

To elevate consciousness' common senses

Is the major task of our Human Race...

— Of creative souls in free thinking minds —

Equally sharing the given Earth's goods;

— In intellectual development

Of technical, — omniform art, and…