by Charles Norman | Aug 12, 2021 | Family
Granny The old woman we called Granny was my mother’s mother’s mother, my mom’s grandmother and my great grandmother. Granny was born in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1872. She was 91 years old when I entered the first grade and died just five months shy of 100. She had...
by Charles Norman | May 1, 2021 | Song of the Day
Camilo A Secas – Un Querer del Bueno Then that same afternoon it was Florentino Ariza who saw the face of death when he received an envelope containing a strip of paper, torn from the margin of a school notebook, on which a one-line answer was written in pencil:...
by Charles Norman | Apr 24, 2021 | Features
J.M. Baule – Compositor, letrista, adaptador de canciones It’s true that no translation is identical to the original. But no reading of a poem is identical to any other, even when read by the same person… The poem must move from reader to reader,...
by Charles Norman | Apr 21, 2021 | Song of the Day
Jim Basnight and The Moberlys – Ain’t It Funny There is still left a single story of a way, that it is. On this way there are signs exceedingly many — that being ungenerated it is also imperishable, whole and of a single kind and unshaken and...
by Charles Norman | Apr 16, 2021 | Song of the Day
Low Ceilings – Grass is Greener He is the god and yet his eye rests with concern on the human race, because the tender shoot of the individual can be crushed as quickly as that of a blade of grass. — Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition The corn, the grass, the...
