Chris Yokel is a freelance writer, independent musician, published poet, avid movie watcher, amateur photographer, voracious reader, music junkie, and connoisseur of chai tea. He holds his B.A. in Phi
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. By the end of World War II it was doubling every 25 years. Today on
I was struck the other day by a line from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The
heroic Orlando—famished by the wild and in need of food for himself and his
servant—
Recently I went through a bit of a creative lull. There was about a month or
more where I didn’t come up with a guitar riff or write a poem. During the
Christmastime is here again, which means the return of Christmas music. If
you’re like me, you have a love/hate relationship with this genre created to be
listened to for about five
Standing Stones II
Like you might label
peas, carrots, and beans
freshly seeded in
the rich brown earth
to know the plant that
springs up in its season,
these standing stones denote
the
