Last year at this time the learned Scarecrow, Hon. Ph.D., delivered the first Emerald City University commencement address. This year the administrators at ECU conferred an honorary doctorate of humane letters on the Tin Man. What follows is his address to the Class of 2011: My heart was filled with pride when the Chancellor of [...]
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Heartfelt words to the Class of 2011 from the Tin Man.
Posted in Brain, Courage, Heart, Yellow brick road on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas 1985 on the YBR.
Posted in Heart, Home, tagged Hallmark on December 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Although I can’t remember where the idea for this story came from, I was surprised to see that a Hallmark Christmas special was based on catalog clippings as Christmas. Makes you wonder. A Christmas Catalog All of their belongings…worth taking…had been packed into their beat-up family station wagon. It was ‘good-bye’ time for the Wheeler [...]
A Christmas story that never happened on the YBR. But why not?
Posted in Brain, Courage, Heart, tagged Holocaust on December 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I don’t know why, I don’t know when, and I don’t know how, but for some reason I was drawn to the sorrow visited upon the Jews during the Holocaust. In 1980 I used the moving true story of the Jewish people of Poland for my Christmas story. A year later, when I learned my [...]
Election Day on the YBR. It’s like Halloween, but only scarier.
Posted in Brain, Courage, Heart, Home, tagged democrats, election day, GOP, office seekers, polticians, republicans on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The fact that election day comes so quickly on the heels of Halloween should neither be surprising nor overlooked. I have no idea if they held elections in the Emerald City, but I’m sure if they did, Dorothy’s three traveling companions would have thrown their hats in the ring. I can imagine the Scarecrow running on [...]
Loving and living the seaons on the YBR.
Posted in Brain, Courage, Heart, Yellow brick road, tagged Dorothy, fall, Lion, Oz, Scarecrow, spring, summer, Tin Man, winter, Yellow brick road on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The front of our house in the fall. Of the four seasons I like autumn the best…except when it’s winter, and then I like winter best…unless it happens to be spring because I like spring best…but when it’s the summer, that’s the best season of all. (Boy, if that doesn’t sound like the answer you’d [...]
