Odrentron world

Beachside Lines

Sip something cold, hear the waves, let your imagination wander through poems, blog tides, music and movie reviews plus random musings scored to an endless playlist.

Poems, blog, letters and such

Writing About…

This little corner of the internet is my tidepool of poems, blogs, reviews, inspirations (serious and not so serious), all humming with salt air, high tides and the low tides of life.

Fresh from the shore

Latest lines

First writings under Letters & Such posted 8/7, 8/10/ 8/18 Lyrics to a song I wrote called “Nashville” and comments on some of my fav. lyrics and all time fav song. New poem “Castaway” just dropped! 8/5/26, and Internal Refrain 8/18. See below.

Read New Poems

and in the bad times I fear myself

The writer behind the tide

I was given the nickname Odrentron by my teaching peers and students created a ceiling tile representing “Odrentron”

One of my favorite locations. Sitting on the beach in St. Thomas looking out to Cruz Bay, St. John’s. Check below for a little more about me.

About me

Collected fragments

Notes from the sand

A close-up of a single sheet of creamy stationery clipped to a small wooden clipboard, propped against a sun-bleached rock on the beach. The page is partially written with looping lines, but the words are just suggestive squiggles, not readable text. Beside it lies a smooth, turquoise-glazed ceramic mug and a pair of earbuds loosely coiled, their cable tracing a musical note shape in the sand. Soft overcast light creates even, diffused illumination with almost no harsh shadows, giving a calm, contemplative mood.
A playful still life of an open, pocket-sized notebook resting inside an empty guitar case left on a quiet beach, the case’s plush interior a deep midnight blue that contrasts with pale sand scattered along its edges. Around the notebook, several colorful sticky notes peek out like bookmarks, and a small, sand-dusted ukulele leans against the case. The late-day sun slants in from the side, creating dramatic, warm highlights on the instrument’s wood and gentle shadows that curve along the case. The mood is whimsical and musical, suggesting song lyrics or beach poems in progress.
An overhead view of a neat spiral of handwritten poem pages arranged like a sun on a pale wooden boardwalk that leads toward the ocean. At the center sits a small, teal Bluetooth speaker and a smooth, heart-shaped stone. Beyond the boardwalk, soft-focus dunes and sea grass sway. The light is soft morning sunlight, cool and clear, casting delicate, radial shadows from the pages. The mood is gently energetic and optimistic, as if lyrics and lines are spinning out from the music.

Message in a bottle

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Float a question, request, or hello my way, and I’ll write back when the tide and time cooperate.

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