Tea Time with Rivqah and Teddy by Noel Joshua HadleyANY minute now, my three-year-old daughter will announce from her end of the hallway, “Daddy, TEA TIME!” And I am telling you now, I will drop what I am doing, stopping everything the very moment she calls my...
Hounds on Parade by Noel Joshua HadleySPREADING my palms wide for a Hollywood committee, I will propose the plot of my yet unproduced movie about long-eared droopy-eyed hounds howling mayhem through a small American town. “Picture the opening act if you will,”...
As Dead As a Dodo Noel Joshua Hadley EVERYBODY knows that Charles Dickens famously employed the term to describe a Jacob Marley ghost sighting. Ebenezer Scrooge first observed Marley’s eyes, nose, and jaw fixed on the doorknob of his London...
Rowers Gliding Past Georgetown University on the Potomac in the Dim Light of Dawn Noel Joshua Hadley 12/9/25AFTER scribbling this poem’s title in a notebook I reclined in a swivel chair and chewed on my pencil feeling rather satisfied with myself. I...
Back Alley Dealers Noel Joshua Hadley 12/8/25 JUST the other day, President Barrack Obama and Senator Mitt Romney were two hands debating policy from a literal world stage rather than a Shakespearean one, and now this. How did that old Indian parable go again?...