Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame,
but I know, it’s my own damn fault.
From “Margaritaville” by Jimmy Buffett
Or Maybe It’s The Blog’s Fault
While KD Lang Sings Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah†At Opening Of 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Now Available – The Other Leonard Cohen Album (a two CD set of unreleased Leonard Cohen songs [...]
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At 7:00 on the morning of December 3, 1999,
in the bed we shared, Julie Showalter,
my beloved, fiercely smart, wickedly sexy wife,
died from cancer diagnosed the week
of our wedding nearly 20 years earlier.
I miss her every day.
In My Secret Life
In the past, I have never planned in advance which poems or songs to place in [...]
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Tags: Julie Showalter·Leonard Cohen·Sharon Robinson
On The Birthday Of Julie, My Much-Beloved, Fiercely Smart, Extraordinarily Sexy Wife Who Died 10 Years Ago
One of the few reliable sources of solace I have found following the death of my wife, Julie,1 almost 10 years ago has been Donald Hall’s poetry dealing with the loss of his wife, poet Jane Kenyon.
I happened onto [...]
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Tags: Donald Hall·Julie Showalter