AKA Just in time for Halloween… One of my earliest childhood memories goes like this: When I was 5 years old, I found some pills in the bathroom medicine cabinet that looked like M&Ms. I promptly sampled them and quickly discovered that they weren’t candy. The medicine left my lips and tongue bright purple, which […]
It’s my sister Kathy’s granddaughter, Isabel, taken by her mom, Beth. My Little Prodigy #1 can be found here.
The winners of yesterday “Liar Liar Pants on Fire Contest” are… Cindy at Twisted Cindy and Laura at Blue Stocking. They both followed their gut instinct and guessed correctly that I don’t have a shamrock tattoo. Most people (8 of them) thought the one white eyebrow was the lie. Check out the breakdown below: 1. […]
One of the following is not true. Can you guess which one? 1. I have a shamrock tattoo. 2. I have one white eyebrow. 3. I once had a job as a night watchman. 4. I’ve done runway modeling before. Siblings, hold your tongues until tomorrow. I’ll post the answer then, along with who got […]
“Sometimes, at art openings, the people that come to them are more interesting to look at than the actual art,” Josh Copus whispered to me at Emily Kasinecz’s September 16th opening reception at Harvest Records. “Interesting art brings out interesting people. Hopefully the people at the New American Arts Collective show will be just as […]
My blog is 7 months old! In honor of my 200th entry, which actually happened when we were in Colorado, I’ve picked out some past excerpts to post: Shortest Post: In My Own Handwriting ~ Found on a scrap of paper this morning and in my own handwriting: “If no one is going to quote […]
“ “Wherever you are is the entry point.” Kabir The following essay about living in Floyd is one which aired on WVTF public radio this past Friday and first appeared in my book, “Muses Like Moonlight.” It appears here in its entirety. For the radio reading, I cut paragraph 5, about Bo Lozoff, in order […]
It looks like we left Colorado just in time, before the 20 some odd feet of snow came down. Here, at home, we haven’t even had a frost. The colorful fall foliage is getting a late start, and the strange changing weather patterns are evident by the fact that it’s mid October and I’m still […]
I thought of my brothers, Jim and Dan, a lot during our road trip out west. Every time I saw an unusual cloud formation, I thought of Jim, the amateur weatherman with a flag at the Blue Hill Observatory erected in his honor after his death 4 years ago. Listening to music on the truck […]
On our way home from Colorado and through Kentucky, my husband Joe and I stopped at Berea College to visit Rowan, a young family friend and member of the Floyd community. Not only was it against the rules to have females in the dorm, it was the wrong time of day for visitors of any […]
Two of us sending postcards…writing letters…on my wall…we’re on our way home…we’re going home… ~ The Beatles Joe has become so adept at driving through the long stretch of monotonous highway in Western Kansas that he can change his clothes while driving! When we left Bob and Rose in Breckenridge, it had just started snowing, […]
My husband, Joe, and I first visited my cousin Bobby and his wife Rose in Breckenridge Colorado ten years ago. Even though it was mid-June, we still had to use a snowmobile to get to their snow covered mountain top home at an elevation of 11,000 feet. Bob, part die-hard tattooed flower child, part independent […]
