Author Archives: Ken Greenman

If you could for a moment, forget Shakespeare and Wilde wrote in British. Just imagine! Hamlet with a Danish accent! The Grave Digger with a Copenhagen slum dwellers lilt! Horatio with a Sorbonne slur! And all of Earnests Important circle … Continue reading →

Ain’t nothin’ makes a body think about the after-life like an old New England cemetery on a late January midnight, where most of the inmates didn’t have the money to pay for Perpetual Care, not that it’d make all that … Continue reading →

To be loved and shriven is all I need to be livin’ Lovin’ my life with my wife and the open hearted kindness of the Father whose will it is to forgive and make it so. I need no relivin’ … Continue reading →

I know! This is just a Florida lanai! I am just visiting. But, please, allow me this vision. As I doze comes sunset. A gray mist rises from the pool, fogging my view of beige tile roof tops transforming them … Continue reading →

Faster than I thought It’d ever happen to me, I’ve wandered into the world of the elderly. At 73, 10 to 15 more years is a good bet for me. Genetics and healthy life will moderate the whiling away of … Continue reading →

I “Hello there, Beautiful! Here’s a few questions for you!” How much of what you are is owed to beauty? How much is not? When you’re no longer in the spot, (since you’re preceived to be “light”) what will you … Continue reading →

Oh! How deep the current of somnolence rises with the tide to soft slumber, to easy awakening in an early Springs cool mornings sepia shaded bedroom. Sun filters through linen-lace curtains. Fleece blankets caress, warmed by and warming my body. … Continue reading →

He steps from the screened porch at 4:06 PM, just before the birds fly in to feed. The feeders he filled early this morning are calling them, tempting them beyond their capacity for reluctance. His presence, sitting on a molding, … Continue reading →

Ya see? I want my money’s worth so when I buy a book, say in my “wise-fool” year of college because my professor said to “read it!” and it teaches me something I didn’t know, confirms something I wasn’t sure … Continue reading →

Pray only under a clear night sky to see in the depths of the stars, how far off and away stretches the ever expanding responsibilities of God. Pray not beneath that limiting canopy of days blue sky, that cocoon enclosing … Continue reading →