Woody Woodburn

“Swan Lake” is not all it is quacked up to be. Indeed, with apologies to the great Russian composure Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his celebrated

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” Oscar Wilde famously wrote and sometimes it is indeed the latter.

As coincidence would have it, just as I finished another personal lap around the sun I also finished filling a notebook with thoughts about this, that, and the other.

With graduation season upon us, from Woody’s column archives of June of 2021…

Three short stories, all taking place recently and involving wheels, but linked even more so by kindness.

From my column archives, originally running in July of 2012, now updated slightly…

In “Tortilla Flats,” John Steinbeck’s first novel of critical acclaim, the great author wrote: “Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”