Stan Lerner's Blog, page 3
May 24, 2012
BYE BYE AMERICAN PIE
A few weeks ago an attractive young bartender at a nice new Italian restaurant here in Downtown LA said to me, “Well if I do have kids, it’ll just be one, because in today’s Modern Economy I have to figure on having to be able to support myself and a child. So, I wouldn’t want [...]
March 21, 2012
SOUP BY CHEF STAN
Having spent seven months in Kansas and Oklahoma inn keeping, cooking and writing I knew in my heart that it was time to come back to Los Angeles, if for no other reason, to celebrate my birthday with friends and family. And then in an unusual twist of life, even by my standard, an old [...]
December 28, 2011
THE YEAR GONE BY
I had gone back to my hometown to work hard and try to find myself again, which turned out to be more of a beginning than end. On a whim I opened a place for people to eat, and realized that it was I, I still needed to meet. "Look how happy you make people," [...]
December 1, 2011
THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2012
I woke up that morning, a few months ago, I'm not sure what the day or date was then—the importance of days or dates are no longer. I don't know why it came as such a surprise to so many people, in reality the European Union had failed when it bailed out its first member, [...]
November 6, 2011
IRON GATE AND THE OPERA STARS
The reasons I put my life on hold in Los Angeles and moved to Winfield Kansas are many, but the one of which I write about now, is perhaps the most interesting, at least to myself. What would the world be like if society dedicated itself not to the purely personal accumulation of wealth, but [...]
October 24, 2011
IRON GATE ALL HALLOWS EVE
As I sat and pondered All Hallows Eve, a dark cloud descended on my soul, mournful sorrow its only goal. And then the ghost of my porch stood silently and stared, urging me to ponder further if I dared. So I searched the deepest reaches of my mind, waiting for this skeleton jackal to opine. [...]
October 10, 2011
RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM BETTER THAN EVER
I'm pleased to say that the Richardson Auditorium / Richardson Performing Arts Center, Southwestern College and the town of Winfield, Kansas have decided to NOT participate in the decline of America. Saturday night, the great auditorium, which resides in the great building on the hill, overlooking the entire Walnut Valley, reopened. Having undergone an almost [...]
September 21, 2011
LIFE THE POEM
Life began simple enough, a family, friends and just enough stuff. We'd spend summers at the beach, swim in the ocean, and building a sandcastle was a powerful notion. I usually walked on the beach as the sunset in the sky, the wind of change bringing a tear to my eye. At night I would [...]
August 31, 2011
THE GIRL DOWN BY THE MILL
A short story by Award Winning author Stan Lerner: I was a person of means and considerable talent, when I left the city of my birth. To some this may sound like the words of a man lacking for humility, but suffice it to say that my many character flaws are more humbling to my [...]
August 19, 2011
ON THE PORCH
Many years ago I sat on a porch and rocked, writing a poem about being Grand Again, words of a man that called a hotel on Mackinac Island a friend, but more than this a beginning and end. Last night I sat on the porch of Iron Gate and rocked, visited by a friend, and [...]
