Link to Robert Messenger’s blog post on Harper Lee: https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-lesson-from-harper-lee.html

Why we need our youth to vote: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/opinion/sunday/emma-gonzalez-parkland.html

I’ve put a little more work into my bedside Poet’s Corner. I repurposed some typewriter cases to create a small bookcase. Last night I worked through some Seamus Heaney. I read his “Oysters,” and I’m not entirely sure what’s going on there. Greek myths, oysters, and some rude Romans. I liked his use of the…

This is the second typewriter I recently acquired that had misaligned caps keys/levers. This is not related to the adjustment screws that align lower and upper case. This is a situation in which one caps key fully raises the carriage while the other caps key fails to do so. Before I could address the issue,…

A poem for Christine Blasey Ford.

This poem recollects one of my favorite memories: a day my girlfriend and I spent at Alligator Point just south of Tallahassee. It was winter. The air was cold and the evening was fast approaching. She was collecting shells on the beach as if discovering new planets. In proper Wordsworthian fashion, this poem was waiting….