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Last to Leave the Party  In your white dress you revolved around me like the moon and like the earth I was spinning, tilted back on my own axis. Billy Collins

We attended a poetry reading by 11 & 12 year old students from a school in our hometown of Denver Colorado. What are these kids thinking about? I was 11 in 1961. Here is a poem I wrote: The three stooges come on at three We are out of peanut butter That ain’t fair. Ok,…

The flag of the County of Norfolk in England. It is the top tier of government of Norfolk County, of which Norwich is the main city. The flag is a bi-color, gold and black field with a white ‘bend’ bearing 9 black ermine spots in alternating pairs of singles and doubles. (Yes Ermine – the…

“Liberia (/laɪˈbɪəriə/) officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5.5 million and covers an area of 43,000 square miles (111,369 km2). The official language is English. Over 20 indigenous languages are spoken, reflecting…

Today is Constitution Day in Puerto Rico Hanging in our Lanai in our home in Denver Colorado: The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. PR is a Caribbean Island and unincorporated territory of the United States. It is 1,000 miles southeast of Miami Florida. The word Puerto Rico is Spanish for ‘Rich port’. “The Commonwealth is an…

The Republic of Ecuador (aka Ecuador). A country in the northwest corner of South America. The Galápagos Islands are a part of this country. It is bordered by Columbia to the north, Peru to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Amerindians have inhabited this area of South America for thousands of years.…

Today is a major holiday for Flag Nerds in England. It is National Historic County Flag Day. You’ve never heard of that one…too bad, it is a Biggie. Surrounding the Parliament Building in downtown London they are flying flags of Historic Counties. I have most of them in my collection and have flown them on…

An American flag older that the ‘Stars and Stripes‘. The continental flag sometimes referred to as The 3rd New England Flag. The story goes it was a flag carried into the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War.…

Today is my sister Bonnie’s, (the one with her eyes closed-dreaming again,) birthday. It is an easy date to recall if you have reached ‘geezerdom’ because something happened on this date in 1969. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the truth can now be told, in true Nostradamus form, my little sister at age 10 began seeing…

The Kingdom of Belgium. A country in Western Europe bordered by The Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest and the North Sea to the northwest. It is divided into three autonomous regions: Flanders in the north, Wallonia in the south and Brussels-Capital region. The flag…