For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
For Random Learning Comes
For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
This is the fourth post in my series, Sixty Days which I began sixty days before our presidential election. I thought I might take a trip down memory lane in the next few weeks, with poems, stories and blogposts I have written during the Trump Presidency. Most of them were influenced by current events …
{This is the third post in my series Sixty Days. I began the series, when it was sixty days before our 2020 presidential election. I thought I might take a trip down memory lane in the next few weeks, with poems, stories and blogposts I have written during the Trump Presidency. Most of them …
{It is now Sixty Days before our presidential election, and I thought I might take a trip down memory lane in the next few weeks, with poems, stories and blogposts I have written during the Trump Presidency. Most of them were influenced by current events at the time, and so will serve as a reminder …
Distant mountaintop, against the lowering sun, seen from a neighboring peak. Copyright Andrea LeDew. I wrote this poem while watching a news conference with Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of the State of New York during the height of the first surge of the virus in April 2020. I noticed, that the state flag behind …
This poem came from watching way too much dire Coronavirus news. And, simultaneously, watching the nation’s appalled reaction, to a picture of a Florida beach on the Duval/St. Johns county line. Supposedly taken just a few days ago, it showed the Duval side, to the North, empty. This was because the Jacksonville mayor had …
{This is a response to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers. We are to write 100 words, inspired by the photo. Photo courtesy of Ted Strutz. My rhyme scheme, once again, took me beyond the limit to 105. Sorry. The prompt photo led me to look at various radiator caps/hood ornaments, designed from the 1920’s through the …
This poem was written in July 2018 in response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw. a writing challenge based on different locations in the world each week. This poem is set in Kinshasa, which was once part of the Belgian Congo, Africa. It talks generally about statues portraying King Leopold of Belgium. You can …
When I first started homeschooling eight or nine years ago, I was terrified of science and higher-level math. How could I, a mere English major, tackle such a difficult area of learning and pass it on to my children? This notion, that children should spend time doing STEAM activities, was just then starting to be …
I first posted this poem in 2018, after watching a dramatic series about real bacteriologists in Germany, who fought to vanquish cholera through the scientific method, in 1888, and won the Nobel prize for it. There are many parallels to today’s situation and the race to find a vaccine for coronavirus, from the fierceness …
I wrote this poem a few years ago when my son with autism was attending art therapy classes at a place called Indigo Art Therapy. The Indigo was taken from the concept of Indigo children, who were a class of children who didn’t necessarily do that well in school but were brilliant and creative …
This is poem about a public servant's fall from grace because of his refusal to pledge loyalty to the king.
In this poem an engineer confronts a thorny problem with no apparent solution.
I wrote this poem in 2017 as a belated addition to the many voices of the “Me Too” movement. Now, we mourn the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court Justice. She did much to advance the cause of women’s rights and disability rights (when will we just call them human rights?) It …
{I’m including this ditty as part of my series Sixty Days , leading up to the 2020 presidential election, because it reminds us of some rather grim times, and the way the administration has responded to dire emergencies. This was first published in the summer of 2017, a very busy season for natural disasters. …
What You Will Find Here Welcome to For Random Learning Comes! I have been writing here since 2017 and my post count now tops four hundred. Here you will find longer and shorter fiction, versed and unversed poetry and thoughtful essays. Their subjects runs the gamut from homeschooling to parenting to public policy to the …
