Top Drawer

Each morning I wake eager to search online; the latest news, messages from friends, funny videos on U-Tube, or love notes from relatives living in Belleville, Casper, or Sausalito. The top-drawer of any morning is listening to a familiar voice pronounce names of notable writers, born on said date, and list their quirks, achievements, titles of books written, etc. Each day, he reads a poem chosen to inform, comfort, or entertain his audience, the timbre of his voice as soothing as a soft rain falling on a canopy. I wait for his closing message, and my voice joins his farewell as we say these words together, “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.” No morning is complete without The Writer's Almanac.