Poets’ Corner: Feela for Thanksgiving!

Posted on: November 22nd, 2022 by David Feela

As Americans gather for our annual Thanksgiving feast, many are sharpening their rhetorical knives while others are preparing to bury their heads in the mashed potatoes. Still others – like […]

Poet’s Corner: Feela for Father’s Day, “Pheasant Memories”

Posted on: June 16th, 2022 by David Feela

The origin story of Father’s Day arguably begins in May of 1909, when a woman named Sonora Louise Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, heard a Mother’s Day sermon in her […]

Poets’ Corner: Feela on “The Wrong Restaurant” for Vaxgiving!

Posted on: November 22nd, 2021 by David Feela

Lincoln called on Americans to observe the last Thursday of November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise” after the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. “I celebrated Thanksgiving the old-fashioned way. […]

Poets’ Corner: Feela for Father’s Day!

Posted on: June 18th, 2021 by David Feela

In my family, we never celebrated Hallmark holidays. Love and respect, my dad taught his girls, should not, could not, be turned on and off like a light switch based […]

Poets’ Corner: Feela, Watch Out for the New Year!

Posted on: December 30th, 2020 by David Feela

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right,” Telluride local Oprah Winfrey. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with […]

Poets’ Corner: Feela on Xmas Burnout, Batteries Included!

Posted on: December 22nd, 2020 by David Feela

During the holiday season, millions use batteries to power twinkling fairy lights and an endless list of interactive children’s toys. That said, according to online sources, websites of the world’s […]

Poets’ Corner: Feela for Black Friday

Posted on: November 25th, 2020 by David Feela 1 Comment

An elderly woman stole an ice cream maker out of a man in a wheelchair’s electric cart. A woman let her kiddo use a games shop floor as a restroom. […]

Poets’ Corner: Feela on “Zombie Poets” for Halloween!

Posted on: October 31st, 2020 by David Feela

It is Halloween, the opening act for the BIG holiday trifecta just around the corner, a night of witches, ghosts and goblins, a celebration of the id that has spread […]

Poets Corner: Feela for Valentine’s Day

Posted on: February 11th, 2020 by David Feela

Cupid’s Day has evolved into the signature day of the year when a gift of any kind ought to express positive sentiments within a primary relationship of any kind: married […]

Poets’ Corner, Thanksgiving: Feela on GFF

Posted on: November 26th, 2019 by David Feela

If returning to your hometown, having dinner with your extended family, and eating yourself into a food coma aren’t your bag, Thanksgiving becomes more than a little uncomfortable. Adding to […]