Archive - Crone Poems & Gen X Reflections

20 hrs ago •

Spike Gillespie

Grace Personified

[Photo by my friend, the brilliant photographer Wyatt McSpadden.]

Jul 14 •

Spike Gillespie

I Love It When You Read to Me

My Love Affair with Audiobooks

Jul 7 •

Spike Gillespie

June 2025

It has to have been at least fifty years since I saw Wayne Newton make a guest appearance on I Love Lucy, delivering up a Southern idiom that has…

Jun 30 •

Spike Gillespie

Yelling at the Donkey

The 473rd Stage of Grief

Jun 23 •

Spike Gillespie

As I sit to gather these words on Saturday morning, at this very same moment, my biological family have gathered themselves to lay to rest my brother…

Jun 16 •

Spike Gillespie

Are You There Dog?

It’s Me, Mercy!

Jun 9 •

Spike Gillespie

Pascal’s Last Batch

Jun 2 •

Spike Gillespie

May 2025

May 19 •

Spike Gillespie

May 12 •

Spike Gillespie

You Can Ring My Bell

But I’d Prefer If You Didn’t

May 5 •

Spike Gillespie

April 2025

NOTE: Last week I mentioned that this week I was going to share my over the top passion for radio.

Apr 28 •

Spike Gillespie

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