Legend has it that Peter Merholz coined the word “blog” when he published a side note to his website in the spring of 1999. “I’ve decided to pronounce the word ‘weblog’ as ‘wee-blog.’ Or ‘blog’ for short.” Today the word blog is in the Oxford English Dictionary. ~ From “Who Let the Blogs Out” by […]
I’m a mandala in your eye a sunflower dancing on black scrying mirror where the sun and moon are lovers I’ve always felt that the world of reflections was more interesting than the literal world, in the same way that physical reality seems to be the watered down version of my imagination. Since I […]
I received an unexpected phone call from my husband yesterday morning. He was calling to report that someone had seen me on the local nightly news. No, I wasn’t pulled over for an overdue inspection sticker or for writing poetry while driving. It seems that WDBJ-7 was doing a news report on regional blogs and […]
I got an inspection sticker for my car today. When I arrived at the United Muffler shop in Floyd yesterday morning there was a line of cars with expired April stickers waiting to be inspected. My sticker had expired too, but the mechanic wasn’t available until the afternoon. So I made an appointment for 4:30 […]
Driving down route 8 to Christiansburg yesterday, I had to pull over at the Riner gas station because my mind was turned on like a faucet and I needed a notebook to catch it. My husband would like me to dictate my thoughts into a recorder. He thinks that would be safer than to scribble […]
Screwing one’s head on right I’ve been dealing with something in the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome family for the past 25 years, although, you would hardly know it. I can do everything anyone else can, just less of it. I get “sensory overload” if I don’t carefully space out my activities, and if I overdo it […]
Semi-retired, that is. And I have the RV (“The Star Trek Enterprise”) to prove it. In truth, I’m not old enough or wealthy enough to retire, but after raising two sons, who are out on their own now, and then doing full-time foster care for adults with disabilities for the past 8 years, my husband […]
