our baseball (haiku) team undefeated
The Major League Baseball 2006 season opened yesterday (April 3),
as many readers surely know. No matter how enthusiastic or indiffer-
ent you (or we) may be about MLB, we hope you’ll agree that f/k/a’s
Baseball Haiku Page still inspires and delights both young and old.
G.W.Bush
Charles Dharapak/AP
The Detroit Tigers, Ed Markowski’s homeboys, won their opener,
but the lifelong fan in Ed is not yet ordering World Series Tickets.
Like last year, Ed continues to be inspired by baseball, when he
switches to his haijin hat.
snowflakes tumble & curve
the baseball season
begins
today
“snowflakeSN”
“snowflakeSN”
April snow
the home team falls
7 games back
April chill
the hitter blows
on his batting glove
“InfielderF” You’ll find about 20 ed markowski baseball poems
on the Baseball Haiku page. Here are a few samples from
three other Honored Guest Poets:
sting
of the old man’s
fastball
my so-called friends
send in my sister
to pinch-hit for me
”extra innings” - Quiet Enough
two outs in the ninth–
the reliever bangs the ball
against his cup
behind barbed wire
the banter of baseball
in two languages
“potluck”
You may recall that Joel Schoenmeyer of Death & Taxes and
I had a debate last month on making probate court more user-friendly
for pro so litigants. See probate and pro se: whose court is it? On
a related front, the legal reform group HALT announced yesterday, in
its April 3, 2006 e-Journal that the Consumer Federation of America
has endorsed the following proposal:
Enhancements to Probate Web Sites
CFA urges states to improve the content and user-
friendliness of their probate court Web sites. Consumers
should be able to go online and easily find plain-language
information and forms for settling a small estate.
[thanks to Prof. Gerry Beyer of the WT&EProfBlog for
linking to this post and covering the topic of probate websites.]
“spiltwine” You might want to ponder, along with Tom Wark of the
Fermentation Daily Wine Blog, “Why Are Drinkers Smarter?” (tip
from A Fool in the Forest and his Blawg Review 51 Prequel) Plus,
see Tom’s blurb — Divorce and Wine — pointing to Jim Calloway’s
California family law weblog and its discussion of taxes, wine & divorce.
this body of mine
part temple
part tavern
the old priest dines
his wine
just wine
yesterday (and again today). Out of 152 million results, the first two
are from us. You could do a lot worse than reading them this
gray (and even snowy) afternoon, if you need inspiration or better
priorities:
Law As Daily Passion, Not Default Profession (quotes from New
Jersey Appellate Judge Jose L. Fuentes) and
is Canada’s legal profession different? (probably not)
“snowflakeSN”