Impavide Publications

It's Snowing (Spoken) Please don’t even talk to us of Spring With sneezy, greenish dust on everything (ick!) And Summertime’s a time of bugs and sweat. Even when it’s dry you can be soaking wet (yuck!) And Autumn, although pretty, is worst of all: A smoky, lifeless landscape once the leaves fall (meh!) But Winter, lovely Winter, with its lovely, lovely snow Lifts our hearts and lends our cheeks a rosy, rosy glow (ooh!) Ting - - ting - - - - ting-ting - - - - - ting - - - A-A-A-A-H-H! (Sung) It’s snowing! Tiny silver crystals of delight. And if the winsome weather girl is right, it should continue snowing through the night. It’s snowing! First as just a dusting, then a trace Now it’s coming down at such a pace You can hardly see your hand before your face. Sneers, contempt and giggles greet the whines Of Gloomy Gus-es bundled to the nines. They pine away for warmer times and climes And hate the very notion that It’s snowing. It’s sad we cannot make this moment last: Our arms around ...

Charles P. (Chuck) Cabell, Jr. attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and joined the US Air Force upon graduation in June, 1958. He holds a Master’s Degree in Astronautics from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a Master’s Degree in Systems Management and Doctoral Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He retired from the Air Force as a Brigadier General after a thirty-year career (which included a combat flying tour in Vietnam), and then spent ten years as a consultant to industry and the government in System Engineering, Risk Management, Contracting, and Project Management.        He took sporadic piano lessons as a child and sang with his high school choir. At West Point he was a member of the Glee Club and was the cadet co-director of the Catholic Chapel Choir. While in the Air Force, he directed Catholic Choirs at several bases and sang and composed folk songs with guitar accompaniment. Du...