Backroads

A View of a Memory: Remembering September 11

PoetPourri
by Marshall Jamison
Paul's Wife
Billy Taylor Plays Ellington | Nebraska Farewell
Hitting the Curve | Deer Isle Harbor
The Listener at the Minetta Tavern | A Very Simple Miracle
The Wonder of Paul Robeson | Joyous Memory...
Month of Terror | Meeting at the Ritz
Partial Recall (Part I) | April Nineteenth (Part II)
A Line or Two From an Admirer with a Long, Careful View
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! | The Last Page...
Tornado | Winter Solstice: The Florida Scene
In Good Hands | An Irishman's Shanty
Attic Window | Judge's Decision
Guilty Innocent | Promise Kept
A Boy Named Laughter | High Fliers on Demand
These Truths | Skipper
Cambridge Education | On Climbing the Stairs
Singing in the Reign | Mother's Challenge
Remembering Sally Benson | InciDentally
A Matter of Pride in Nebraska | Don's Heritage
Boyhood Memory | One Day in Harvard Yard
Doughnuts! | Maine Summer Day
Memory of Emily | Second Mates Watch
Tall Friend in Florida | Hail to the Chief
Hypotenuse | Poet Pourri

Striving for a Life
by Andrea Puckett
Listening to Portable Music | Why We Should Care Baby Boomers are Retiring
Going to Preschool at 23 | Entering the Virtual World: A Friend and Enemy
New Year's Eve: Settling Down without Settling | Rain that Stormed My World
High School Reunions at Funeral Homes | How Dick Meets Jane in the Modern World
How 9/11 Changed the Entry-Level Job Market | The Definition of a Hero

World Traveler
by Nancy McDaniel
When the Golden Years Turn to Gold Dust | Death in a High Rise
Camp Chapungu | The Spirit of Christmas Passed
Even the Address is Gone | A Trio of Peaceful Pachyderms
But It's Just a House... | Beach Musings
Alone but Not Lonely | Meeting Dr. Ian Player
Angels in Fur | Hiker Chick
Upside Down & Inside Out | A Safari for My Senses
The Solar Powered Bush Baby | Soul Clouds
The Beverly Hillbillies Head for Binga | Did Harry Meet Sally?
Childhood Never Changes on the Beach
More Beach Philosophy | How Different the Snow is Now
The Colors of Love | Beach Philosopher
Let the Healing Begin | The Costa Rican Eagle Has Landed
Mama's Voice | Giant Yellow Memory-Eating Beast
Omigod, it's a Kudu! | My Dad
One Who Splits the Night in Half | Be Friends & Heal

Undiscovered Divide
The North Loup Cheese Factory by Darlene Psota
A Special Place by Ken Druce
The Guernsey Lake Castle by Ken Druce
La Jolla, California (May 1999) by Bob McCulloch
The Glorious Garden by Stephanie Bayles
How Would You Like Your Potatoes? by Barb Beck
Self-Addressed Yorkies by Barb Beck
Flores Island, Indonesia by Emma Dowson
Laos by Emma Dowson

Through a Latin Eye
by Luis Vega
Spreading Democracy | Martin Torrijos & The Promise of Panama
Condeleezza Rice & the Latin American Economy | Americans Have it Easy
The Spread of Democracy | Latin America Corruption
The United States as World Cop | Capital Investments Mean Vested Interest
Countries as Puppets | Hugo Chavez and the Cuban Revolution
Charismatic Leadership | A Plague on Latin America

A Leveling Truth
by Tammy Tillotson
Children & Chipmunks | Jane Austen: Persuasive Manners
Dog Eat Dog Fu | True Reparations
I Had a Little Husband | Bingo!
Ladybug Fly Away Home | The True Ladybug
Marry, Marry Quite Contrary | The Love Bank
The Dress Makes a Woman | Truth or Dare
One Nation, Under God, In Divisible Common Cents | Letter to Heaven
On Being Human | On Being Human, Part 2
Reparation for Native Americans | Cochlear Devices & the Deaf Community
Recreating the World Trade Center | A Mentally Disabled Evolution

Blinking Under a Blue Sky
by Louise O'Brien
Flickering Images | The Affair
Everything Crashes | Pull Up a Chair, Girlfriend
As Soon as She Descends | Clubland 2001

Midwestern Easterner
by Janna Sweenie
Interpreting for Cyndi Lauper
The New York Black Street Slang Exam
Buy The Slice | When It Rains, New Yorkers Melt
Janna's Extra-Easy Delightfully-Delicious Lasagne

A Fine Life
by Steve Gaines
Bottom's Dream... Again
66 | Lucky Number Twelve
Unless | Diving off Light Poles
Lighthouse on the Prairie | Linoma Beach, 1955
A Mirror View | Suspended in Concrete
Who Am I? | Millennium Poem
Chasing Coronary Demons | The Lackey's Lament
Working the Boards in Buffalo | 45th High School Reunion
A Twentieth Century Rag | Notes on a Gig
A Child's Photo Contest | The Fourth Wall
Songs of My Sorrows | Autobiography
After the Beginning | Little Boy Lost
Nebraska | Cast in July
Macbeth & The Summer | After the Music
The Dying Roommate | From A Dream
The Funeral | For My Father
A Cornet on the Wind | Painting Tables
Lament | Retirement

The Master's Touch
by Howard Stein
Eugene O'Neill and One Hundred
To Know A Man | Rich Man
Dreams | On Being Tossed

Hard-Hewn Lives
by Joseph Baldwin
Window: A Portion of the World | Downpour
Ghosts of Summer Evening | Creatures Interface
Geese, and the Boy | Cloud Picture
Branch Line Local, 1923 | Fur-Flight
Fontaine Fox | Private Soldier
December | Idyl in a Willys-Knight
30 September | Squirrels

A Forever Game
by Janet Hanna
Waiting
Yet Another Plum | My Death
Pomegranate | Falling Off the Cliff
Calypso's Defiance | Odysseus' Arrival
Stranger | Scar Tissue

Shining People
by David Boles
No Star Shines Brighter | Homeward
Sacrifice | Falling
Moonshine | Sunshine
Mostly White Meat | Unnatural Selection

An American Spaniard
by Mar�a L. Trigos-Gilbert
What's in an Accent? | The Hugo Ch�vez Fr�as Revolution
Holiday Blues | 2000 Election: Organized Chaos
The Never Ending Story of the Invisible Empire
Wording the Visible & Invisible
Enigmatic Louisiana | Throw it Away, it's Free!
Chavez, the Church & the Elite | The American Dream
Latin Americans in America | Why Bother with Religion?
Our Electronic Awakening | Venezuela in Different Perspectives
Cuba Now | Surprise? There is No Clinton Surprise
Venezuela & Hugo Ch�vez Fr�as | Ana Mar�a Matute
Verbal Crimes | Cultural Idiom Adventures
The 3rd Party Generation | Sensible or Senseless?
Flowers | Dying Flowers
Right Beside... | In a City's Corner
A Woman's Matter | Concepts of Foreign Languages
Beyond Assumptions There Are Real Matters
Transparent Election of Governors in Venezuela
Discovering Miguel de Unamuno
Hacking the Attackers | The Thinker, Sculpturing & Meditation
Online Honesty | Is Death Dead Yet?
Deconstructing My Name | Caracas & Monroe
Two Worlds Embracing | Two Worlds Embracing (Part 2)
Two Worlds Embracing (Part 3) | Two Worlds Embracing (Part 4)
Two Worlds Embracing (Part 5)

Home Road
by Evan Stair
That's More Plastic Junk | In Celebration of Amtrak
An Ode to Mayberry | Corporate Soup Bowl
A Change in Fashion | Year of the Asterisk
Land of the Greed | Christmas in a Cup of Swiss Miss
The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band | Star Trek Reality
Western Kansas | I Opened a Living Time Capsule

Letters from the Civil War
by William Samuel Craig
1862: Mar 13; Oct 5 & 8; Dec 14
1863: Mar 8; Apr 17 & 22 | 1863: June 9 & 23; July 11
1863: Sept 8; Oct 13 & 18 | 1864: Feb 21; Mar 22 & 27
1864: Apr 15; Aug 16; Dec 24 | 1865: Mar 27; Apr 3 & 9

Promising Poets
Rendered Me in Stillness by Gaven Terrell Godbolt
Sweet Poet's Release by Keith Kenney
Nevertheless by Joyce Kohl
Winter Hunger by Mark A. Johnson
Veil of Maya by Mark A. Johnson
Geriatric Checklist by Marianne Stein
Grace by Alma Johnson
Thinking by Joyce Kohl
Mark by Alma Johnson
Old Friend by Mark A. Johnson
My Son by Alma Johnson
When Did I Become Old? by Pearl Snyder
Cosmic by Joyce Kohl
Human Songs by Mark A. Johnson

Joyce's Eatery
Basics
Approximate Measurements & Substitutions
Baking Temperatures & Times | Weights & Measurements
Daily Bread, Rolls & Pasta
Banana-Apricot Nut Bread | Bread Mix for Skillet Bread
Corn Bread Mexican Style | Egg Noodles
Flour Tortillas | Homemade Rolls
Decadent Desserts
Amaretto Ice Cream
Bailey's Chocolate Cheesecake | Easy Cheesecake
Lemon Pie Cake | Raisin Oat Bars
Donuts!
Doughnut Making Tips
Chocolate Cake | Biscuit
Plain Cake | Raised
Chocolate Glaze | Honey Glaze
Hearty Heart
Apple Coffee Cake | Barbecue Sauce
Chicken Salad | "Whipped Cream" Topping
International
Breaded Veal Cutlets | Chimichangas
Eggs Oriental | Green Chilies Casserole
Guacamole | Mexican Mix-Up
Pizza | Pizza Crust
Ponche De Pina | Southwestern Chicken
Swedish Meatballs
Luscious Liquids
Cranberry Fizz | Hot Apple Punch
Kahlua Coffee | Orange Julius
Main Meals
Baked Chicken | Crispy Fried Chicken
Pepper Steak
Quiche Lorraine | Spaghetti & Meatballs
Tuna Dollops | Zucchini Quice
Quick Chow
Candy Snacks | Cheese & Beef Dip
Guacamole | Olive Beef Dip
Homemade Potato Chips | Shrimp Dip Supreme
Side Dishes
Baked Beans | Caramel Yams
Corn Casserole | Glazed Carrots
Potato Onion Puff | Scalloped Potatoes
Sour Cream Potatoes | Spinach & Artichoke Bake
Spinach Rice Salad
Soups, Salads & Dressings
Coconut Salad | Broccoli-Pasta Soup
Fresh Fruit Salad | Lentil Frankfurter Soup
Leek & Potato Soup | Spinach Salad

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