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• Third Week of Every July

  By elbrookman on July 15, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

    Those times taking the children to the shore Vacationing from work All the buildings in a city And lack of horizons there. Our lives were deep breaths on a strong pier. We held that breath Till the next year…. Read More ›

• Making America Gr-r-reat!

  By elbrookman on July 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

    President Trump is President Tony-the-Tiger, making America Gr-r-reat again and everything is Gr-r-reat! You just can’t spell “gr-r-reat” this way without lots of red lines created by auto correct in Word Perfect. No doubt about it, I accept Trump… Read More ›

• The Last Delivery

  By elbrookman on July 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

    Writer’s Note: (An earlier work from 2014 some of you will remember as titled X-Ray Specs. I re-wrote, changed the delivery and created a work of art for 2017. I gave a newspaper the right to publish it and… Read More ›

• The American Thinker, Anthony Benvin, Otto Warmbier, Cool Hand Trump And The Punishment of Theft.

  By elbrookman on June 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

      There is a reason I haven’t written any political articles since the last one I wrote, April of 2016 called Cool Hand Trump. https://elbrookman.com/2016/04/03/cool-hand-trumpi-can-eat-fifty-eggs/ It was plagiarized, the title, words, the idea stolen from me and twisted to… Read More ›

• 4 Exciting Facts You May Not Know About The Writer, EL BROOKMAN.

  By elbrookman on June 13, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  #4   While on a raucous night out in his youth in Washington D.C. with some of his buddies, he passed out. They bought a ticket at Union Station and placed him on a train. He woke up half way… Read More ›

• ANSWER DISCOVERED 70 years later. Did Rhett Come Back to Scarlet? 

  By elbrookman on June 5, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

       My Uncle Jim’s relative, Hugh Gravitt, while driving his Ford taxi, killed Margaret Mitchell as she and her husband John Marsh crossed Peachtree and 14th street in Atlanta Georgia in 1949. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served 10 months… Read More ›

• The Jock And The Judge: Annapolis’ New Celebrity Royalty.

  By elbrookman on June 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  We all know the jock, Maryland’s favorite son, Baltimore Orioles’ great “The Iron Man” Cal Ripken Jr. When Ripken got his divorce following 30 years of marriage, put his $12 million dollar home in Reisterstown, with a baseball diamond on… Read More ›

• A Clean, Well-Lit Room and an Elevator To Escape The “Nada.”

  By elbrookman on May 31, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  In a Hemingway’s short story he showed the way to escape the pain of the “nada.” In order to survive with dignity, to cheat the “nada,” one has to find a place, a pleasant place, “with the light, a certain… Read More ›

• The 143rd Kentucky Derby, A Thing of Beauty!

  By elbrookman on May 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Beauty is a problem in our entire culture, art, music, poetry, sports, relationships with others and our everyday existence. It is a problem because we no longer imagine beauty as a serious way of knowing. I am here to tell… Read More ›

• Annapolis, Streets Always Crowded

  By elbrookman on March 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Church Circle, This town’s marquee Ringing bells of 300 hundred years Opens a curtain, Two shows a night Coming and going Ghosts get in free.   Going at midnight Aging in my walking Limping red brick to red brick Toward… Read More ›