Tag: arts
member name: Pamela H.
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February 23, 2007 11:32 AM EST --
Shadows are falling and I've been here all day...
How do you get to the stage in life where the shadows are beginning to fall, and suddenly discover the mind and magic of Bob Dylan? How do you . . .
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March 16, 2007 07:58 PM EDT --
When televangelist Jimmy Swaggart had his fall from grace in February of 1987, many Americans delighted in his public humiliation. Swaggart had been caught with a prostitute. He was a hypocrite, . . .
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April 17, 2007 11:40 PM EDT --
This being school vacation week here in Massachusetts, and me being a teacher, I am -- of course -- correcting papers.
And I have this one stack that are problematic. They are my students' letters . . .
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March 28, 2007 08:42 PM EDT --
Serendipity: 1. a gift or talent for accidentally finding the perfect solution or making a happy discovery; 2. lucky coinciding of events; 3. an orange-blend shrub with a sweet fragrance...
My computer . . .
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March 09, 2007 09:58 PM EST --
Everything I want to do is there -- like celebrate Bob Dylan's birthday.
Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, will be holding "Dylan Days," a five-day celebration of his birthday, . . .
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March 24, 2007 11:22 PM EDT --
In the book Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Thinking), edited by Peter Vernezze and Carl J. Porter, the subject of bootlegging ethics is examined in the essay called . . .
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August 16, 2007 08:33 PM EDT --
Photo Essay Contest
I live on Cape Cod, one of the most naturally beautiful places on earth. Shaped by glaciers advancing and then retreating, the land has the ridge of a spine along . . .
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March 10, 2007 11:30 AM EST --
Bob Dylan a false prophet?
Over the years of his career, countless books and articles have been published about Dylan's spirituality and what he himself called "the saving grace that's . . .
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May 13, 2007 02:17 PM EDT --
"You're going alone?!"
I'm getting that a lot these days, as the clock ticks and there is now just "One More Weekend" until I travel to Hibbing, Minnesota for this . . .
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April 15, 2007 04:03 PM EDT --
I wonder if a day goes by that some Bob Dylan fan does not drive past his childhood home in Hibbing, Minnesota. At 2425 7th Avenue East (renamed "Bob Dylan Drive") the home appears from . . .
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June 02, 2007 04:58 PM EDT --
This is the story of the fifth-grade schoolteacher -- me -- who became so inspired and captivated by Bob Dylan that I went on pilgrimage to his hometown, a journey of 1575 miles from my front . . .
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May 05, 2007 06:53 PM EDT --
Here's your hat.....what's your hurry?
Of all the lines written by Bob Dylan, this may be the most unexpected and unlikely: "By the way, that's a cute hat." ("Sweetheart . . .
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June 04, 2007 09:51 PM EDT --
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
Hibbing High School may be the most impressive structure in the town of Hibbing, Minnesota, but it was a much . . .
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February 28, 2007 11:36 PM EST --
I get on kicks listening to music. I can listen to a CD over and over again for a couple of weeks. When I'm in this kind of zone I'll listen to one particular CD until . . .
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March 06, 2007 06:51 PM EST --
You let him break,
standing back to watch
(and I watched, too)
his lean lithe attention to
the white ball.
Then a sharp crack!
And he had the stripes,
You solid.
Cue sticks slid back and forth
Carefully . . .
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April 25, 2007 10:55 PM EDT --
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage
And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die,
We Poets of the proud old lineage
Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why.
-- James Elroy . . .
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April 28, 2007 11:29 PM EDT --
Ever write a "found poem"? A found poem consists of lines taken from some other work. The poet culls lines and phrases from any number of possible sources -- the newspaper, a magazine, . . .
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May 08, 2007 08:17 PM EDT --
"Dear John?"
He left to play for another team,
It's true some fans get attached,
And believe reality is their dream;
"He and the team are perfectly matched!"
It's true some . . .
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June 22, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
Now that school is over, the final week of games, grades, awards, meetings, banquets, invocations, convocations, graduations, and plain old tears at goodbye behind me, I can at . . .
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June 08, 2007 11:14 PM EDT --
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
Walking into the Hibbing Public Library on Thursday, May 24, the morning of Bob Dylan's 66th birthday, . . .
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