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Books · Between 10 and 5 With Dad
 · Chapter 7, Kissing Dad's Nose, revised (Alternate version)
 · Chapter 7, Kissing Dad's Nose, revised
 · Revised Chapter 3 of Between Fathers and Sons
 · Chapter 7, revised of Between Father and Son
 · Chapter 3 Between Father And Son (my second book)
 · Chapter 2 Between Father and Son (my second book)
 · Chapter 1: Between Father and Son (my second book)
 · Revised Preface of My Second Book
 · Stuff My Father Won't Tell Me Revision #2 of Part 1

Short Stories · Sequel
 · Cruising Route 66 With Dad (a major revision )
 · These Lights We Kindle, revision 5 for submission
 · These Lights We Kindle, Revision 4
 · These Lights We Kindle, revision 3
 · These Lights We Kindle, revision 2
 · These Lights We Kindle (revised)
 · Cruising Route 66 With Dad, Revision #2
 · Cruising Route 66 With Dad-Revision 1
 · Cruising Route 66 With Dad

Articles · Living With Parkinson's Disease
 · What DO We Read on the Back of the (In)famous Photograph?
 · Looking Out The Rear Window: Ten Years Ago
 · Jewish Life Learning Aboard The New York City Subway
 · The Jewish Press Publishes These Lights We Kindle
 · Jewish Humor
 · I Grieve For Ben At My Side (final revision)
 · I Grieve For Ben At My Side
 · As The Ninth Year Approaches ... Yom Yom
 · Fundamentals of Fathers and Sons

Poetry · yahrzeit
 · Martin ... my brother I love but never knew
 · Significant Revision of A Father Loses A Daughter
 · A Revision of A Father Loses A Daughter
 · Loss and Gain
 · At Heaven's Gate
 · Martin
 · Fingers, A Poem for Kimberly (revision 5)
 · Fingers (substantially revised #4)
 · Fingers (revision #3)
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 · Between 10 and 5 With Dad/Keeping The 5th Commandment by Alan D. Busch
 · Synopsis for Alan D. Busch's second book Between Fathers and Sons
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Perhaps my favorite memory of Zac growing up ...
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For Zac, My Younger Son and Youngest Child
My memory of you when a boy I did teach,
of a human being I pray I helped you become.
Let your life reflect the divine spark in each
when the banality of others does us benumb.
Teary-eyed sighs on cloudy days recall,
a boy's freckled face crestfallen became ...
for plucking orange lilies off sun craning stems,
whose countenance shone neither remorse nor shame.
A lesson he'll recall from that day hence …
may many more days be his to see,
Respect all life from great to small, guard this lesson's value pristine,
Tend your garden until like a school it becomes
so tomorrow's children will have lilies seen.
Alan D. Busch
8/5/09
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| Reviewed by Sheila Roy |
12/13/2009 |
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Alan,
You know they didn't really teach this lesson when I was growing up. We use to peel birch trees, pick more berries than we could eat, and break the branches off the trees with a boomerang. I won't tell you the things my older brother did. lol. I like how they are teaching respect for life to kids earlier and earlier. This poem also captures a feeling of innocence. Great write:)
Sheila |
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| Reviewed by Micki Peluso |
7/5/2009 |
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Alan,
That was lovely!!
Always,
Micki |
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