She, waiting for him to take his turn: Mind if I post the picture I just took of you on my blog? He: Yes. She: I won’t use your name. He: I don’t want my picture on the internet! She: Okay. He, while playing the word LANGOR: You spend a lot of time on the […]
November 3 I’m sitting in a cafe, drinking a Coke. A fly is sleeping on a paper napkin. I have to wake him up, so I can wipe my glasses. There’s a pretty girl I want to look at. ~ Richard Brautigan I was raised on jump rope songs, nursery rhymes, and songs from the 40s that my father taught me. Those were my early influences and the foundation for my love […]
You’re golden…I’m red delicious…basking in the sun’s October glory…You’re Adam…I’m Eve… ~ Colleen My husband, Joe, moved to Floyd in 1987 to be a teacher at the Blue Mountain School, the parent-run cooperative school that my sons went to. We first met in the town laundry mat. He was with a couple of BMS parents […]
AKA Notable Quotables: Colleen on feeling nervous before giving a poetry reading: “Well, I can’t be any worse than President Bush at a press conference, right?” Joe on Colleen’s habit of loud sneezing: “You sneeze like your leading the drill team.” Colleen after a scrabble game: “It’s embarrassing to win, but it’s more embarrassing to […]
My favorite thing about having a published book has been witnessing all the attention and support that my mother (after losing two sons) has received in my hometown of Hull, Massachusetts because of it – and if the book were a vacuum cleaner, she would be the salesperson of the month. After the article about […]
It seems like we go right from butterflies to spider webs, reminding me that Halloween isn’t too far off. This is the time of year that harvested garlic wafts from my pantry, and I’m startled by the sound of nuts dropping from the paws of squirrels onto our shed’s tin roof. Garden plants are wilting […]
Here is the last of the series that I’ve posted in 4 parts. 100 things about me part I, II, and III can be found here. 75. I collect cobalt blue mugs from places I’ve been to. 76. I like to people watch. 77. I like to thrift shop. 78. I come from a blue […]
“If we can’t respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the gulf for days, then why do we think we’re prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?” Newt Gingrich Contrary to what some Bush supporters think, that his critics are now trying to blame him for the weather, no […]
Donating money to The Red Cross for the victims of Hurricane Katrina is all well and good, but the satisfaction I felt doing so didn’t compare with that of preparing a personal care package for someone in need that I’ve never met. I did this recently when I learned that a Floyd couple would be […]
When we do what we were made for and follow it to a completion, when we offer our work as a way to touch others, it opens the way for more. ~ Colleen from “Book Signing” My husband, Joe, and I recently attended the 1st Annual Franklin County Book Festival where I met other local […]
AKA: Sunday is Optional When I was growing up Catholic, we couldn’t eat meat on Fridays. Girls wore hats to church and the mass was still done in Latin. During Lent, we gave up candy and other sweets. No one shopped on Sunday because all the stores were closed. In the spirit of the colonial […]
5 Years and 5 Things Ago… What were you doing 10 years ago? I was watching my youngest son Dylan’s soccer games and my eldest son Josh wrestle in his first state tournament. I was taking prom pictures of Josh and teaching him to drive. Dylan dyed his hair red and got a bb stuck […]
