Haiku

My parents were very well to do, so we had a full-time maid;
Six days a week she worked for them,...

Today marks the day my heart broke,
My life changed and my sorrows arose,
The day I wished I...

Inspired by Nat King Cole’s beautiful song of the same title

Oh my precious Angel Cody, now...

Inspired by Nat King Cole’s beautiful song of the same title

Oh my precious Angel Nico, almost...

Our Angels Nico and Cody, we have great news with you to share;
You’re going to have a baby brother...

Inspired by Shirley Temple’s 1934 song of the same title

What yesterday, was the “Ocean...

Yes it’s true, I have impregnated her, but with a plan, and not my seed;
For in nine months, she’s...

We woke up early Friday morning, trying to forget the day before;
The convention opened at ten a.m...

In late September, 1963, we decided to take a trip;
To Toronto for a coin convention, and some...

As a sixteen year old teenager, a great movie did I go see;
Starring William Holden and Miss Nancy...

We just peeked out our bedroom window, and look what greeted us;
A brand- new Mister Snowman, but...

There was an amusement park in Dayton, located on the West Side;
It had a bad boy named “The...

In the Spring of 1963, my Father had an idea, he knew’d go far;
He thought what Dayton had need of...

I started building a rare coin collection, when I was just twelve years old;
Called a United States...

Sitting hear alone and blue
We now have nothing whatsoever we want to do
Children gone and no...

In the Fall of 1957, I joined our local Y.M.C.A.;
One of the largest in the whole World, a...

When our Cody lost his Nico, it was more than he could bear;
We watched him in his loneliness, “...