The Dashboard Poet
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Trying to keep my personal belongings from becoming my personal effects. |
| Location | Aurora, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | I am an Irish/Cherokee/American that loves language and is fascinated with words. Nothing about me is remarkable. I am simply a pilgrim on his journey home. I am the great grandson of the Cherokee and Rebel, the grandson of an Arkansas sharecropper, and the son of a soldier. As for who I am...look to those from whom I've risen. I am a piece of the American puzzle. Most of the work contained in this blog have their origin in my experiences. Some of the poems are rooted in pure imagination. You may guess which is which! |
| Interests | Poetry (Good Poetry), Horses (Fast Horses), Westerns (Good Westerns), Music (Good Music), Trucks (Old Trucks), Art (Good Art), Ice Cream (Peach Ice Cream), Coffee (Strong Coffee), Conversation (Good Conversation), People (Broken People) and Dogs (Any Dog). |
| Favorite movies | Open Range, Appaloosa, Young Guns, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, 3:10 to Yuma, True Grit, The Horse Soldiers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache (...picking up on a trend?), & The Right Stuff |
| Favorite music | Marty Robbins (Gunfighter Ballads) Kenny Chesney, Liz Wright, Michael Martin Murphy, Lady Antebellum, John Fogerty, Mississippi John Hurt, Ferlin Husky, CCR, Craig Morgan, Clint Black, George Srait, Poco, Tommy Emmanuel, Celtic Thunder, Jackson Browne, Carrie Newcomer, The Boss, Dean Martin, Bob Seger, Alan Jackson, Aliotta Haynes & Jeremiah, Vince Gill, John Meyer, Adele, The Eagles,Jane Monheit, Norah Jones, Mercy Me, Patty Griffin, Ricky Skaggs, Sean Hayes, Sheryl Crow, Susan Enan, Susan Tedeschi, Michael McDonald, Trisha Yearwood, Ronnie Dunn, Tab Benoit, Willie Nelson...and anyone who can pick a mellow dry box or blow a mean horn! |
| Favorite books | THE BIBLE, by God, Thirteen Moons, Rivers to the Sea, the poetry of Pablo Nuerda, nearly Everything by Dean Koontz (esp. the Odd Thomas series, Innocence, and The City), Sara Teasdale's Anthology, Cold Mountain, Brimstone, Appaloosa, & Blue Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker, Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick, The Painted House by John Grisham, Wyatt Earp by Casey Tefertiller, the Longmier series by Craig Johnson, White Doves at Morning, by James Lee Burke....and, of course, the 20-year long book I'm writing. |
Please describe how you could take the peel off an apple all in one go:
Ignore the silly question posed for this space. I have. But let me say... ...Writing is the discipline of opening a vein and bleeding ink.