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Meet the
Columnist
Columnist, Sheila
Moss, is a free-lance writer from Tennessee. She writes
funny stuff about southern life, women's issues, family
matters and anything else that she finds amusing.
She is
seen weekly in the Aberdeen Examiner, Angleton
Advocate, Daily News of Kingsport (online) and
appears in a monthly humor publication called Foolish
Times. She has written for Atlanta Woman Magazine,
and a supplement of the Murfreesboro Daily News
Journal. She has been
published by Voyageur Press, McGraw Hill, and the good folks
at Guidepost Books have recently published a number of her
articles in their Let There Be Laughter series of
books. Her articles have appeared in
numerous other publications, both print and online.
She is a board member and the Web
Editor of Columnists.com, website of the National Society of Newspaper
Columnists, the
oldest and largest professional organization
for news columnists. She is also the Web Editor of
SouthernHumorists.com, as well as this website, HumorColumnist.com.
To carry her self- syndicated weekly column in your
newspaper, or
to republish an
article, please contact her.
He rates are guaranteed affordable. It's that easy.
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National
Society of
Newspaper Columnists
HumorColumnist.com
Online Since 1999
Sheila Moss
PO Box 198019
Nashville, TN 37219
E-Mail
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"Lightning
Bugs"- A Watercolor
© 2000 Trudy O.
McConnell
Firefly Articles on this
Website
Bit
About Fireflies
General Info
Plight of the
Firefly
Bug
Bytes
Reader's Comments
Stories from Site Visitors
A
Shining Moment
Special Fireflies in East Tennessee
The Lighting Bugs
Things I
have learned from Fireflies
Firefly Humor
Firefly
Cartoon
Courtesy Steve Langille
Fireflies
A Poem by R. Louis Carroll
Where have
all the fireflies gone;
those earthbound stars of night?
Do they hide from our eyes beneath grass as it lies?
Or has their beauty just faded from our sight?
I
remember as a child when nights were short and days were long,
when the dusk was to me a time to be free,
and I'd dance with fireflies playing their song.
I'd take a jar, poke holes in its lid then seek out their light.
I'd run through tall grass with my jar made of glass,
hoping to capture these stars of night.
What wonders they bring to a youthful child's heart,
a smile on my face as I try to keep pace,
and in this joy they too played their part.
When the day was done, the fireflies released and free,
I'd lie in my bed with thoughts in my head,
of fireflies playing in the fields with me.
Now as I age and those days slip into the past,
I look out in the night seeking their light,
and remember the nightly spell they cast.
But as I look out into the night seeking some sign,
I see no light, no stars in the night,
and miss the joy that was once mine.
Original Poem by R.
Louis Carroll
Preamble to "The Gift: A Christmas Story"
©2000 All rights reserved - Used by permission
Firefly Information Links
The Firefly Files
In Association with Ohio State University
University
of Kentucky
Department of Entomology
What
Makes Fireflies Glow?
University of Utah Genetics
Fireflies
Seen in a New Light
Harvard University Gazette
NO
Idea
Nitric Oxide and Flashing
Firefly
Fact Sheet
Info on uses in scientific research
Summer
Night Lights
Environmental Information for Kids
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