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Author: David Feela

To honor the memory of his father on Father’s Day, David Feela choose to continue a tradition scholars say might have emerged from Babylonian ruins, where upon a 4,000 years ago, a boy named Elmesu carved a message of good health and long life to his...

13 June, 2014 /

According to a Floral Trends Tracking Study, Valentine's Day is the number one holiday for florists, accounting for most of the industry's fresh flower sales. Seventy-eight percent of the flowers consumers purchase for Valentine's Day are cut flowers, with men being top customers, many buying...

10 February, 2014 /

We tend to think of the beginning of the New Year as a cosmic white-out: bad things disappear; hope springs eternal. Regular TIO contributor David Feela is a retired teacher, poet, free-lance writer, and workshop instructor. His writing has appeared in hundreds of regional and national...

29 December, 2013 /

Freedom fighter, prisoner, moral compass, South Africa's symbol of the struggle against racial oppression, an icon of equality and in the words of our President "the last great liberator of the 20th century." Nelson Mandela died last Thursday, December 5.  Joyous South African and dozens of...

10 December, 2013 /

Witching is the process of searching for and locating the lost, holding a twig that dips and twitches as it points to its mysterious pleasure. And I’ll admit, I’ve tried. Picked up a forked stick, moved slowly about the yard, but all I found was the root of a tree where the stick probably...

29 October, 2013 /

Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. The man is, as you will see, quirky and funny. His latest book, “How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners,” a collection of essays, is available at Between the Covers Bookstore. The...

01 September, 2013 /

 Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. The man is, as you will see, quirky and funny. His latest book, “How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners,” a collection of essays, is available...

03 July, 2013 /

Editor's note: John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th president of the United States serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion,...

28 May, 2013 /