After revealing some of the stupidest things I’ve done in my August 1st post, some members of The Love-Link, an email group I belong to, came forward with some of their own “stupid things.” Most were related to mishearing, like this one that my niece, Chrissie, shared: She and her boyfriend recently went to a […]
I wish all my recent road trip blogging looked this pretty. This is David St. Lawrence of Ripples, blogging at our own wireless Café de Sol, here in Floyd. He’s actually writing about women from Hingham in this shot (see photo and question below).
When Gretchen St. Lawrence and I first met in June for a blogger met-up, we were excited to discover that we hail from the same place. Although we both live in Virginia now, she is from Hingham, Massachusetts, and I am from Hull, the next town over. At our second meeting, last week in the […]
It has become clear to me that one of the most deep-rooted causes of our problems is the way we treat children and above all babies. I am equally convinced that no program of social and political change that does not include and begin with changes in the ways in which we bear and rear […]
Righteous – Meeting the standards of what is right and just; morally right. ~ The American Heritage Dictionary I wore an assortment of hats, caps, and visors throughout the 4th annual Floyd Fest weekend to keep from being sunburned and from getting WET. We seemed to get all variety of weather over the 3 […]
My fantasy is that at some point during the recent Floyd World Music Festival (Floyd Fest), I would have finagled myself up on stage, grabbed a microphone and shouted to the crowd, “How many bloggers are out there? Let’s see a show of hands!” After all, didn’t my friend, Steve P, get up on the […]
When “Life in the Rural Fast Lane” was originally posted at “Loose Leaf” on April 5, a reader humorously asked where the accompanying photo was (in reference to the line where I say that because I have no visible neighbors, I can garden topless if I want to). More recently, the essay appeared in the […]
This meme was sent to me nearly a month ago by Musings of a Middle-aged Woman. I was in Massachusetts at the time on a solo sabbatical, being kept busy trying not to do anything really stupid so I could make it home in one piece. Sorry it’s taken so long to answer… 1. What […]
