by Xianna Michaels | Sep 28, 2014 | Editorial
auto I’ll let you know if I ever decide to go shopping for another car. In the meantime I’d like to share with you a poem I wrote three years ago when my green Ford Mustang and I celebrated 20 years together. Anniversary Song Twenty years and they all make fun And...
by Xianna Michaels | Sep 22, 2014 | Editorial
enlighten My birthday comes at the very end of August. I did not particularly appreciate this when I was a child. I could not have a birthday party in school, since there was no school yet. Everyone was focused on Labor Day and back-to-school, and it seemed a very...
by Xianna Michaels | Sep 16, 2014 | Editorial
auto So, as I was saying previously, in my delightful search for a new car, I set my priorities. I had to have a green car. In those days that was not an ambiguous concept – it referred to a color, not an ecological ideology. There were no hybrids, no electrical cars...
by Xianna Michaels | Sep 14, 2014 | Editorial
auto If you happened to be in the big parking lot behind the one remaining bookstore in my vicinity on any given sunny summer Friday afternoon, you might well see me helping several of my grandchildren in or out of my little car. And then you might well see a curious...
by Xianna Michaels | Aug 10, 2014 | Editorial
Month: August 2014 I wrote my very first poem for a school assignment in the third grade. I remember the exhilaration I felt when the words came to me and I realized, “I can do this.” I wrote many poems for my teacher, Mrs. Blank, that year. I don’t remember them, but...
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