I said, “Asshole, admit you’re a fraud! Admit you can’t write! Admit you pay other people to write your crap. What, a bum on Skid Row? A middle school dropout? Are they even fucking literate? Do you even give a shit? How much do you pay ‘em? Tell me, TELL ME!!!”
One Year Anniversary Today. RIP Mom.
My mother, Nancy Elizabeth Page Lipscomb Holstad, died one year ago today on August 5, 2024 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her funeral took place on August 11, several days later. Despite being nearly a century old, it was a bit of a shock as she lived alone in her own condo, had been slowing down but …
Three [very] Short Poems in Five Fleas!
Many thanks to Five Fleas Itchy Poetry for publishing 3 short pieces of mine on Sunday. One is a 7-word monoku, one is a three line absurdiku-type and the third is a short 5-line piece from my another diluted found pome series, so those who like CUT-UP technique and/or Found Poetry experiments might dig that. …
Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists: The Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales
I can't say enough good things about this book. It's not only a go-to resource for me, but it's virtually daily reading material. Though I've never really publicly discussed much of anything, my mother's family -- both maternal and paternal -- were prominent families related to a million other prominent families, as was so very …
