THANK YOU MRS. BROWN During In my walk through the park the other day, I rounded a corner and was struck by what I mistook for a change in the landscape. When I looked again, I discovered it was an illusion. I was staring at a reflection of the sky in a pool of muddy water. I walked o

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE   Some friendships are forged over time and the relationship grows stronger with the passing years. But some are born in a crisis, like the characters from the screenplay, “Thelma and Louise.”  The latter kind is what I call a supernova friendship. It begins

 IN HONOR OF US In his poem, “To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence,” James Elroy Flecker expresses his curiosity about life after he is gone:                                …have you wine and music still,                    �