Tom Chester

Haiku on dogs

Life, Poetry November 19, 2017November 19, 2017 by Tom Chester

Here are four haiku about dogs. My current dog is Milo, a mongrel I adopted from the Multnomah County Animal Shelter. The haiku follow the … Read more

What is important in life?

Life May 5, 2024November 17, 2017 by Tom Chester

This is an exercise that was part of a training session I took more than thirty years ago to become a hospice patient volunteer. I … Read more

Beekeeping – Basic points and keys to success

Beekeeping and Other Interests May 10, 2020November 8, 2017 by Tom Chester

I have kept bees since the mid-1990s. I started with two colonies, moved to six my second year, and on up to about forty, although … Read more

Thinking for oneself

Society, Technology May 10, 2020November 5, 2017 by Tom Chester

A recent op-ed piece in the New York Times discusses the dangers of social media to our political system. Several sentences in the piece got … Read more

A letter to a climate change denier

Conservation, Of the Moment, Society October 30, 2017 by Tom Chester

Here is a letter-to-the editor I wrote earlier this year to a magazine to which I subscribe. My letter was in response to a letter … Read more

Writing haiku

Poetry October 25, 2017 by Tom Chester

Haiku instructions: two spare lines setting the mood, then an astute third — perhaps with two more after, a tanka in counterpoint

How very Trump-like

Humor, Of the Moment October 21, 2017October 21, 2017 by Tom Chester

One of the few good things about the current administration is the entertainment value of the garbled way Trump speaks and tweets. He is as … Read more