1. Right now I’m unemployed with two full-time jobs, writing and therapy. 2. When I first became a stay at home mother, I remember saying that I had never worked so hard in my life. I’m learning that retirement is similar and that there’s hardly ever any downtime when there’s no separation between my life […]
1. The leaf within 2.The youngest among us 3. Impressionable 4. Food for thought 5. As far as the eye can see Update: My WVTF radio essay “Born to Blog” will air on Public Radio this Friday at 6:55 and 8:55. I’ll post the text here over the weekend, but you can hear it now […]
Last week when I posted a poem called “Hot Flash at Night,” I forgot to mention that it was composed while I was asleep. I frequently “write” in my sleep, but that was only the second time I was able to preserve an intact poem into the morning. (Here is another one). The poem posted […]
When I say “work” I only mean writing. Everything else is odd jobs. -Margaret Laurence I don’t remember who was holding the camcorder at the time, but the question posed was, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” My brother Jim had just answered. “A photographer,” he said. He was nearing […]
The first time I met isa maria was in the late 1980’s at a neighborhood pond where weekly swimming lessons for Floyd homeschoolers and Blue Mountain School students took place. isa stood out, not only because of her striking beauty, but because she was the mother of two babies and was carrying one on each […]
“Why didn’t you tell us that Josh was being interviewed for US Airways Magazine?” my sister-in-law’s message on our answering machine said. Her husband was flying from Missouri to the east coast when he picked up the magazine in the seat pocket in front of him, I learned when I called her back. Flipping […]
1. X is a high scoring Scrabble letter. There’s only one in the bag. 2. For a brief time, I had the nickname Xerox. OnThe LoveLink, our family e-mail group, I sign my emails “xocolleen,” and the spell checker kept changing it to “xerox.” 3. It’s a poet’s job to say… the emperor wears no […]
1. Fate 2. Confrontation 3. Insight 4. Possibility Photos: 1. Leaf found at the end of our driveway, hanging by a spider thread. 2. The inside of Joe’s old truck got wet, so he drove it in the middle of the yard one day so that the sun could dry it out. 3. This is […]
“I wrote my first hot flash poem,” I announced to my women friends, who were gathered together for a tea party in honor of our friend isa being in town. “I put it in the Museletter, and so now everybody knows!” I confessed. “I’m having one right now,” someone said. “Is my face red?” […]
She has no last name – like Cher – and spells her first name in lower case letters. She paints mermaids on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. An improv dancer, dumbeck drummer, and teacher of Non-violent Communication, mostly isa’s a painter. Whether a Floydian or Hawaiin portrait, whether landscape or seascape, her animated pastels (several […]
Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid or something? Oh no. It’s just they’re terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future. ~ The Princess Bride The answers to last week’s Halloween Costume Contest, which you can review HERE, are as follows. 1. Sally, owner of the […]
My friend Patry from “Simply Wait” had three hot new ideas in October. One of them was to host an online book club called “Third Day” in which participating bloggers agree to read the same book and post about it on the third day of each month. The first book chosen for club reading was […]
