Tag Archives: young adult

Overtime: chapter 2

Posted on September 12, 2015 by labeak52

    Welcome to the chapter-by-chapter presentation of my new novel, Overtime: A Basketball Parable. This is the second day of this experiment, so today you are getting chapter two.  If you haven’t read chapter one yet, just go back … Continue reading →

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Success Story in The Making

Posted on September 11, 2015 by labeak52

My wife just finished reading The Martian, by Andy Weir. She loved it, as does, apparently, everybody else. Andy’s success story is a very interesting one. It appears that he – like almost everybody else – could not find an … Continue reading →

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Afternoon Poem, July 28, 2015

Posted on July 28, 2015 by labeak52

  . I. Late summer the first yellow leaves fall evening comes early and nights are cool again. . II. We run down the shady path In mid-afternoon, sweating from every pore As if we had escaped. Entunneled beneath the … Continue reading →

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Voices X

Posted on July 23, 2015 by labeak52

That tall pine looked out of place there in that little patch of woods behind the Sexton’s garden. That whole hilltop had been timbered and plowed when they started farming back in the Thirties and had only gradually gone back to wilderness … Continue reading →

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Voices IV

Posted on July 9, 2015 by labeak52

The last time I went fishing with Dad we drove down to Bath County and stayed at Nimrod Hall.  We left after work and it was after seven o’clock when we got there and just twilight.  We were anxious to … Continue reading →

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afternoon post, july 7, 2015

Posted on July 7, 2015 by labeak52

y . The Durbin Route:  1919 . The train moved certainly like the turning of the Earth and in a line like time.   In and out of the shade of the forest nearing and then turning away from the … Continue reading →

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morning post, July 6, 2015

Posted on July 6, 2015 by labeak52

Back then, it seemed like all the big snowstorms came at night.  I’d drive to work in the late evening and it would just be starting.  A few flakes on the windshield.  You could see them in the headlights, too.  … Continue reading →

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morning poem, July 2, 2015

Posted on July 2, 2015 by labeak52

  Following The River   With time on my hands I have at last done it Gone all the way up the little river Past every creek and rill that joins And farther on To where the river itself is … Continue reading →

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afternoon post, June 15, 2015

Posted on June 15, 2015 by labeak52

                          Summer Afternoon     The summer colors deepen in the afternoon The yellow green lawns The dark green hils The jade green lake.   The mists vanish and leave the day exposed Resplendant in clarity and stillness … Continue reading →

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afternoon post, june 8, 2015

Posted on June 8, 2015 by labeak52

  .                RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON   This morning was bright With energy and purpose. There were things to be done Thought to be taken Words to be carefully chosen, spoken, written And life went on From office … Continue reading →

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