Arclist
Ralph Melcher
- Location
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Birthday
- April 13
- Title
- Writer
- Company
- Arclist
- Bio
- Ralph Melcher is an essayist living and working in Santa Fe New Mexico.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Your post called up
images of when the elderly
Italian woman
who lived next
door…”
December 14, 2008 12:21PM
Ralph Melcher's Links
Sketches of My Father
My father never talked about his war. He was an enigma to me in many ways. A heavy smoker and someone who liked to tell a joke to lighten up a room and who liked to argue for the enjoyment of an argument. We argued often, until my mother would
Creative Space
Creative Space
There is nothing in this world I could not do without
except the air
therefore everything is a surprise
A poetry reading given by friends.
The back room at the Agora supermarket,
working class Hispanic humor.
One brother in Cleve
… Read full post »Political Bullshit
This priceless photo taken of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney at the inauguration of their successor captures a glimpse of two sides of the American character. On the one hand Bush looks distracted as he fiddles with something in his hands (It looks like he's playing a video game!).… Read full post »
A Perfect Storm
"The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!" A chant that has echoed through four decades, first heard broadcast from in front of the Hilton Hotel in Chicago in 1968, as Walter Cronkite intoned that the Democratic Convention was being held "...in a police state". This was
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