May 2014

When I first met Belle Burch in Ken Kesey Square, I told her about the poet Joaquin Miller who co-founded the Bohemian Club. “There’s such a thing?” she asked with glee! “Yes!” When Belle called me, and I told her she was going to be my heir to the Great Tale, little did I know…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: When Rena came out of that darkened doorway at 3:00 A.M. she did her best not to ask me to help her. Severely abused children often make a vow they will never cry for help, no matter what. They will keep that vow till their dying day. Within this vow…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: In looking at the evidence, I have concluded Rena and I spent Christmas Day utterly alone. Well, not quite. Rena was composing her letter to me, thus I was with her. And, she was with me, after forty-four years, but, I did not know it. I forgive Rena, and beg…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Eliza Spalding was the first white woman to cross the Rockies on what would be know as the Oregon Trail, that was explored and mapped by my kindred, John Fremont, who married Jessie Benton, the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, the author o Manifest Destiny. Eliza was born a…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: I am going to do three things today… 1. Stretch and gesso a large canvas in order to do a portrait of my late sister 2. Contact my friend Joy about scanning the photos of the Jesuits she owns who befriended her people, the Hunkpapa Sioux. 3. Begin another Ghost…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: When I read the name “Rosemond” on the envelope of the letter Rena sent me, I wept for three minutes for many reasons. One being, I had a happy ending for my book I have been authoring for eight years. And the other, it was like getting a letter rom…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Note how much this poem by a woman is like my letter to Rena. Do women have make muses? Muses inspire. Rena agreed to inspire me. I never suggested we be lovers in my letter. Greg “I am a creature of the Fey Prepare to give your soul away My…

The VA has been “gaming the system”. The question is, did the top people do this so they could collect their bonuses – MONEY! Jon Presco The e-mail outlined ways employees could manipulate the system to hide the fact that veterans had to wait months for appointments, said Lisa Lee, a scheduler at the VA…

On May 1 of last year I was contacted by an executive producer of CBS News who had read my post about my late friend, Hollis Williams. Hollis did not complain that much about the treatment at the VA, but was mortified by how he was treated by the Social Security Administration who kept denying…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: In 1970, Rena told me about the time the Principle of Grand Island Senior High, brought her into his office and accused her of being too beautiful to be an Islander, and, he would have to expel her if she didn’t do something about that mini-skirt that was driving all…