~ The following is a year end review using Loose Leaf excerpts that were taken from each month of 2006. Click the link if you want to read the post in its entirety or to view accompanying photos. January – A Neighborly Visit: I returned to the humble hand-built studio home of my recluse friend […]
It’s a mailbox full gold star day of hand-written invitations It’s a special delivery I’ll gladly sign for Because when the muse is busy it’s always good news
A few days after my son Josh’s UNC BFA Thesis show, the culmination of 4 months of intensive labor of making pots and bricks for a massive wall installation, his car was stolen. His car being stolen was the event that caused me to realize (and mention in an earlier post) that when someone lives […]
1. Favorite low-tech Christmas gift given to Josh by Colleen: A manual Smith Corona typewriter. 2. Or maybe it was the Christmas ball of lights made out of plastic cups that I got in the Christmas Eve Yankee swap and called “Steve Martin’s Brain.” 3. Pens appear out of nowhere in my house like socks […]
1. The number of people who fit on my couch on Christmas Eve broke a record. 2. A present so big it was used as a coffee table. 3. Best T-shirt 4. This is the present I got in our Christmas Eve neighborhood Yankee Swap. I call it Steve Martin’s brain. Post Notes: Other unique […]
A few days before Christmas my husband and I volunteered to wrap presents for a toy drive at the Floyd Rescue Squad. Inside the station there were wrapping supplies on one table and a pile of toys on another. We weren’t long into cutting, wrapping, and taping before the child in me came out. The […]
Sleighless at the skating rink Santa’s got a brand new bag Box seats at the reindeer races Santa’s at my house. You’re next. Post Notes: Santa’s mid-life crisis HERE. Some Santa’s you don’t want to meet HERE. The photos above are all either from my own, or my son’s, private photo album.
When the founders of Wall Residences, Jack Wall and Kamala Bauers, brought their vision of supporting individuals with disabilities to Floyd County in 1995, my husband, Joe and I, pooled our collective skills in human resources and joined their network of foster care families. For over 8 years we provided foster care in our home […]
1. Sarah Mclachlan has a wonderful new Christmas CD out called Wintersong. You can hear her singing Joni Mitchell’s “River” HERE. Link via Simpy Coll. 2. And HERE’S a short video clip taken by an art collector of my Asheville potter son, Josh, at his UNC BFA graduation exhibit. 3. I got Josh a box […]
“The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.” ~ Billy Collins My friend Jayn was complaining about how little time she’s had to write. She, primarily a studio potter, was recently going through some old papers and saw how many half written poems and book chapter drafts she had left […]
The last time I played Scrabble with Alex it was late October. I don’t remember who won, but I do remember that she was out of breath from just sitting and playing and that by the time I was getting ready to leave she had already retired to the couch and had hooked herself up […]
Feelin’ groovy at the Café Del Sol’s third Saturday open mic. Still hummin’ from the Hafla the night before. My poem had a fat fly and a clumsy yellow hornet in it. Sierra returned with her sweet words all abuzz … God is a bumble bee with hyacinth desire …. I am a jar of […]
