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Down with Bowne (The Uncut Version)

Walter Bowne is a humorist, a writer is serious fiction, or so he likes to think, and creative nonfiction about his crazy adventures. He may also speak about books, family, history, flowers, and gardening, and his belly button.

Sun and Moon

1 min; July 12, 2023

On Innocence

1 min; July 12, 2023

Being Alone with Thoughts of You

56 secs; July 12, 2023

A Poem for My Daughter

3 mins; July 12, 2023

To Ridley Creek

1 min; July 12, 2023

Second Child, Never Runner Up

2 mins; July 12, 2023

Here Was a Man

13 mins; July 12, 2023

I Wandered Lonely as a Dude with Three Women

16 mins; July 07, 2023

Why Independent Reading is So Essential in School

11 mins; July 05, 2023

The Uncanny Letter from the Beyond

15 mins; June 29, 2023

The Butterscotch Queen and Her Sexual Frankness

9 mins; June 28, 2023

The Rolling Stones Get Religion

25 mins; June 28, 2023

The Father in Me is Never Off Duty

8 mins; June 28, 2023

Elevate Hearts and Minds to the Portals of the Soul

20 mins; June 21, 2023

How to Grow Clematis Like A Maestro of Flowers

10 mins; June 14, 2023

Train Jumping and Stealing Steins

26 mins; May 30, 2023

How to Build a Hosta Garden on the Cheap

5 mins; May 30, 2023

Writing Prompt: Do you believe more in Fate or Freewill?

3 mins; May 30, 2023

Silence is a Hole

4 mins; May 18, 2023

Ten Minutes of Lockdown

5 mins; May 16, 2023

The Cerberus Blues to the Rescue

16 mins; December 23, 2022

Book Publisher Promotes Edgy YA Titles to Middle School Teachers

9 mins; November 26, 2022

No Colors Allowed: A satirical novel of a London lad in serialised form

15 mins; November 25, 2022

The Tower in Pisa Finally Tumbles: Hermits and mystics may love time alone, but not this lonely traveler

9 mins; November 25, 2022

The Pursuit of Love and Romance: Teaching the guys from Hong Kong how to be romantic.

13 mins; November 25, 2022

The Seething Brains of Lovers and Other Madmen

8 mins; November 24, 2022

No Red States or Blue States

6 mins; November 21, 2022

THADDEUS LITTLEMAN: A Compatriot in Black at the Library

10 mins; November 18, 2022

THE DNA OF ROCK AND ROLL: This Stuff May Bust Your Brains Out

12 mins; November 17, 2022

Rain Barrels Help With More Than the Water Bill

4 mins; November 16, 2022

Add Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” to Your Heavy Metal Playlist

8 mins; November 16, 2022

So Much Hate Alarms ‘The Lunks’

7 mins; November 15, 2022

Dearest Writer, We Really Miss You

6 mins; November 15, 2022

Yanks on Holiday

1 min; November 15, 2022

Ode to a Catbird: A Playful Dialectic Between Poet and Bird

4 mins; November 15, 2022

Thaddeus Littleman: A Love Letter to Emily in London

6 mins; November 13, 2022

Thaddeus Littleman. Chapter 1: A London Lad in the Jersey Pines

12 mins; November 13, 2022

Learning Economics By Playing ‘Animal Farm’ with Fisher Price People

6 mins; October 10, 2022

Walter's Dream Hath No Bottom

11 mins; September 19, 2022

Tossing the Dice for Happiness

2 mins; July 28, 2022

Ode to a Catbird

4 mins; June 29, 2022

Sonnet 129 by William Shakespeare

1 min; June 15, 2022

Celebrating “Araby” by James Joyce on St. Patrick’s Day

6 mins; June 09, 2022

“Elsewhereness” in “The Boarding House” from James Joyce

10 mins; June 09, 2022

A Song of Dejection

1 min; May 17, 2022

Encountering the ghosts of the past

6 mins; May 10, 2022

One, Two, Three, Four, Open Up the Fucking Door!

11 mins; May 10, 2022

Flights of Fancy: Stouts and "Iron John" by Robert Bly

12 mins; March 27, 2022

Oscar Wilde's 'Preface' to his classic gothic novella is a quarry of golden nuggets

21 mins; March 11, 2022

On “Thunder Road” with Mary Jane

9 mins; February 21, 2022

These Winter Days as a Snow Man

19 mins; February 15, 2022

Adjusting Our Inward and Outward Senses to the Rhythms of Nature

7 mins; February 15, 2022

Thou Shall Not Interrupt Mass with the Messy Randomness of Death

6 mins; February 15, 2022

Michael Nesmith Saved Us on Phantom Canyon Road

9 mins; February 15, 2022

Huck Finn’s ‘Dark Night of the Soul’

10 mins; January 31, 2022

Deep Cuts: Great Cover Songs That You May Not Know

22 mins; January 08, 2022

You Don't Have to Smile and Say Cheese

9 mins; December 22, 2021

The Last Breakfast

38 mins; December 15, 2021

An Ivy League Lit Scout Offers a Confession

12 mins; December 06, 2021

Chapter 3: The Escapades of Thaddeus Littleman

14 mins; December 01, 2021

Thaddeus Littleman: Chapter 2

14 mins; November 28, 2021

The Escapades of Thaddeus Littleman: Chapter 1

15 mins; November 28, 2021

The Last Breakfast

32 mins; September 27, 2021

The Franklin Station Phenomenon

35 mins; September 01, 2021

JUDGING THE JUDGERS: So Much Hate Alarms ‘The Lunks’

7 mins; July 30, 2021

Dearest Writer, We Really Miss You

8 mins; July 26, 2021

New Jersey Man Offers Plenty of Judgement Outside of Planet Fitness

11 mins; July 26, 2021

Written When Young After Reading Keats

1 min; April 28, 2021

To a Waterfowl: My Selection

13 mins; April 28, 2021

Sweet Allegro of Youth, a satirical sonnet

58 secs; April 28, 2021

On Innocence, a sonnet by Walter Bowne

57 secs; April 28, 2021

What is Worse Than Greased Tea?

7 mins; April 28, 2021

Going Full Grammando

15 mins; March 15, 2021

Second child, but never runner up

2 mins; March 14, 2021

The Garden Address of Memory - 7236 Grays Avenue

7 mins; March 14, 2021

High Adventure on Forest Service Road 318 - Arizona

24 mins; March 14, 2021

The Wild Designer and Her Romantic Poet

27 mins; March 07, 2021

A Poem for My Daughter Madeline.

4 mins; March 07, 2021

The Way of Love: A Wedding Blessing

2 mins; March 07, 2021

A Chance Encounter in Wyoming

21 mins; March 07, 2021

Wonders of Childhood Rediscovered on a Mountain Hike

22 mins; February 27, 2021

Why I Teach

2 mins; February 21, 2021

The Pilgrims Arrived on That Sad Day in Boston

6 mins; January 18, 2021

The Proving Grounds

22 mins; December 29, 2020

Don't Be Afraid of James Joyce

5 mins; December 01, 2020

IMPORTANT MEMO TO SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS! FORM LETTER FOR INEVITABLE TEACHER DEATHS WILL DECREASE YOUR WORKLOAD.

6 mins; November 30, 2020

Meyer Wolfshiem from The Great Gatsby

11 mins; November 13, 2020

The Story of Charles Jones, a true ghost story

41 mins; November 05, 2020

The Gathering Gloom: What fuels our fear? And why do we love of all things zombie?

6 mins; October 14, 2020

What is fueling our love for all things-zombie?

0 secs; October 14, 2020

The Metamorphosis

7 mins; September 09, 2020

Enough to Remember

10 mins; August 28, 2020

Schooled by a 2nd Grade Romeo

8 mins; August 28, 2020

Playing Chutes and Ladders in Québec with a side of Tim Hortons

10 mins; August 28, 2020

It's Buyer Beware When Signing on the Dotted Line for Student Loans

6 mins; August 12, 2020

It's AP Radio with Walter Bowne

17 mins; August 05, 2020

Car Jams: Talking Music, new and old

9 mins; July 19, 2020

Compost pile draws out inner selves

9 mins; February 17, 2020

No slave to the mortgage man is he

3 mins; February 17, 2020

Ambition

7 mins; February 15, 2020

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