Editor's Corner

By Mary E. Adair

We waved bye bye to this year's January at midnight and cautiously welcomed February, the shortest month, hoping for warmer weather. But, then we are one of those who tenaciously long for summer, whatever the month. Only a few of our incoming compositions discussed weather and quite casually then.

Four of our wonderful poets are each represented by three poems so we can present our readers with a nice rounded dozen. Walt Perryman's three are "As Old As I Am", "Fine Thursday Ramble", and "Old One About Children." Bud Lemire's poems are "Freeze Me!" "I Ask My Cousin," and the triumphant "Cherokee Daughter."

Bruce Clifford shows "Before You," "I Love Her More," and "Lipstick Girl." The three encores by John I Blair are "Daniel Boone and Me," "What Is It About Cats?" and "The Year We Had A Crazy Neighbor."

Mattie Lennon of Dublin Ireland discusses in his column "Irish Eyes," writers and all types of writing they do, and how they can research their craft. He tells us about an upcoming treat, "The Marian Hotel" and describes it as a powerful stage drama. Pauline Evanosky's column "Woo Woo" encourages those interested in finding or increasing their own psychic abilities to ease up and approach it in a simple manner.

Judith Kroll's column "On Trek" has her recalling a chat where various people were adamantly expressing their opinion, unsurprisingly about a subject no one knew what the correct answer could be. Marilyn Carnell's subject in "Sifoddling Along" points out how where one grew up inevitably adds to their vocabulary.

The column "Introspective" has an interesting explanation by author Thomas F. O'Neill, of Spirituality and Religion and how they differ. Melinda Cohenour's "Armchair Genealogy" includes personal information that family trees can now include within Ancestry, for instance. Her recipe in the column "Cooking with Rod's Family" is a long time favorite.

Mike Craner's column "Mike's Place" explains how actual memories can be diluted or enhanced while dreaming. He advises that incidents, events, and such memory making occasions be recorded while the facts are fresh.

It is nice to have our co-founder and webmaster present for this first issue of the new Volume 29 of Pencil Stubs Online. He does manage to stay pretty busy doing such interesting things as being the Santa for train excursions during the holidays. We are always grateful that he keeps our eZine functioning.

We look forward to seeing you in the March issue of Pencil Stubs Online.