Michael Allyn Wells

Settling to watch the World Series game tonight.  Looking for a good game tonight with the series tied 1 game apiece and the series moves...

Sigh….  I’m often tuned in enough to think this time of year that the 27th is Sylvia Plath’s birthday but I almost missed it this year. She ...

It's that time again... • the paper absorbed everything and said nothing • the night is an unsettled dog • Mary Oliver quote - “Do y...

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.' ~ Garrison Keillor Actually, I think this is a sple...

  The cooler weather, the fall leaves, I don’t know it was just calling me. Besides I bought some Honey Crisp Apples yesterday at Targe...

The Midwest Poet Series has hosted some wonderful poets over the years and yet last nights reading by Robert Pinsky is a standout among the...

Finish this sentence: Idle hands are ___________. Did you answer the devil’s tools or devil’s plaything? How long can you sit with idle ha...