World Cup 2014 Baby! Germany WINS !!!
Congratulations to Argentina & Germany, the country of my birth! This one is for my mother!!!
Memorial resolution that was read at the last Purdue University Senate meeting on behalf of Ingeborg Hinderschiedt
My Mom, Ingeborg Maria Hinderschiedt: June 18, 1929 – December 7, 2013 Please say it now-click the underlined link > Love or condolences- in the “Reply” section below 🙂 A copy of the memorial resolution that was read at the last Purdue University Senate meeting on behalf of Ingeborg Hinderschiedt. =
To Mutti: We Are Born Amazed
My Mom, Ingeborg Maria Hinderschiedt: June 18, 1929 – December 7, 2013 Please say it now-click the underlined link > Love or condolences- in the “Reply” section below 🙂 Some of the great songs she loved- = = = = = = = Ingeborg Maria Hinderschiedt (Aprile) 1929-2013 Eulogy: Ingeborg Hinderschiedt Professor Emerita of…
We Are Born Amazed
We are not born alone … We are born amazed. A completely pristine white page of talent waiting to be uncreased and unfurled to the end of all that we can see that is that history of ours, yet to be heralded, yet to be written and a grand suggestion of a future history that…
Mutti & Me
The Name is “Mutti” Mutti was a speck of a hope of dust when she first came to life. In German, her name is a term of endearment from child to mother. I used it to call to my mother back then, but that was about a very long time ago when I was not…
To My Father: Max Aprile
We are not born alone … We are born amazed. A completely pristine white page of talent waiting to be uncreased and unfurled to the end of all that we can see that is that history of ours, yet to be heralded, yet to be written and a grand suggestion of a future history that…
Letter to a Daughter …
July 25, 2011 My Dearest Maria, Well you are headed back to Michigan to start 8th grade. I wanted to tell you that I enjoyed your visit to Texas this summer, and I hope you enjoyed your stay. We had a lot of good times, and as usual we had our “moments”. I for one…
Before LoveJoy : Odd Choices
Is James Herndon my father? This story has it’s roots in post war Germany 10 years after the war to end all wars. My mother was a student at Heidelberg, my adaptive father was an Army translator, and my biological father a (as told to me by my mother) was the author, James Herndon. http://en.wikipedia.org/……
An Interview with Frank: TheDailyGeorge.com
George Reporter: Congratulations Frank on winning the poetry contest with “The Rough Stuff.” It’s quite a powerful poem; may I ask what inspired it? Frank: Alot of years living on the edge I would say. Not by choice- but out of necessity. Way back in the day I hitch hiked across the country 3 times.…
The Rough Stuff …
Water is casual as it drips – callous – and suggestive… It can be rough, flat, but never indifferent… Salient it is… Expressionless, remorseless, relentless. Unable to emote – A reflection of its environment – It sucks up color that surrounds it – Ripples with a transient speculation of direction suggested by the wind –…
Trees Without Bark
In Autumn- leaves fail … They drift away They fall and break And whisper ourselves apart- And become the grains of Winter- The assumption that gray is not a color becomes a narcotic slumber that forgives the advice from a younger heart- And urges forward- and onward- and hints that once upon a time- we…
Unwritten Feathers 