Aw Ted, I ain't ever been worried much about being in fashion! (not since about 1995, anyway) If I recall correctly, Ogden Nash made an entire career of "light verse." But for those of you who got a smile from my humble "light verse," thank you. :-)

I just started reading a book called "Laughing Stock," the autobiography of a now largely forgotten Southern writer named T.S Stribling. It is what I would consider great writing. It is better than just Good. He wrote three novels, won a Pulitzer Prize, and didn't write anymore novels after that. Anyway ---- his books are available from the University of Alabama Press, whose warehouse is in, of all places, Chicago.

And now I have a hankerin for some cherry pie and ice cream...