September 23, 2008

On this September evening
I dip my pen into the black
molasses of an inkwell,
straighten the corners of my curling yellow parchment,
and slide my flickering candle of memory
an inch closer on the rough-hewn wooden table.
A drop of hot wax pleads with my thumb
for attention
while my thoughts drift with the cool breeze
that wanders through the open window,
becoming lost in the swirl [...]

Mulberry search terms

One WordPress feature not available on my old Blogspot URL is a better statistics feature.  It’s rather interesting to see monthly graphs of visits to my blog, and to note any correlation between the frequency of my posts and the number of views.  I can also easily see which posts are the most popular, most [...]

Wordle

Since I’ve added the “Category Cloud” and “Tag Cloud” widgets in my side bar, my sister Charity suggested I check out wordle.net.  This website will create artistic clouds of commonly used words on a website.  This image, created from the last three days’ posts, gives a good flavor of my week.

Important addendum

I added a few significant comments to the recent post Things I don’t like which dealt with the frustrating behavior of some surgeons and nurses.
If you are interested or if you feel that I made unfair generalizations, please revisit the comments for that post.

Resurrection of the blog

Many days and nights have passed since I last logged in to blogger.com. A few months, indeed, have gone by; and although I never had any intention of abandoning Mulberry Street, there were times when I feared I’d crossed that critical point in time after which I’d never return. Were my faithful readers–you know who [...]

I power Blogger

So I’ve added a couple new elements to my blog format. You’ll notice a list of labels in the right-hand margin. Starting this summer I’ve begun categorizing the posts, so if you’re writing a biography of my life and you’re writing a chapter on my exercise and reading habits, it’ll be easier to [...]

Jonathan reenters the world of blogging

Armed with my lap-top, a guilty-pleasure Mary Higgins Clark mystery, and today’s crossword puzzle, I made my way this evening to nearby Max’s Cafe near the corner of 122nd and Amsterdam for use of their free WiFi internet. When my sister and brother-in-law, Shelley and Chris, came to visit recently, they told me about the [...]

Out of sequence posts

So for the last few months, I’ve been alerting my vigilant readers that I might post out of sequence as I attempt to catch up after a month of lackadaisical writing. I suppose there might be one or two souls out there who cling to every conjured image from my life; every play on words; [...]

June revisited

The last couple of months, as suggested by the paucity of posts on Mulberry Street, have been busy. Please note that I plan again, in the next week or so, to flesh in a few more memories from May and June, with the posts dated when the events they describe occurred, not when I write [...]

May: A retrospective study

After doing so well by consistently writing posts in April, I’m surprised that the month of May has flown by with nary a post. In the next few days, I’ll try to do a little catch-up writing. (n.b.: I’m going to cheat on the dates by timing the posts as if I’d written them on [...]