The two things I see the most of in Cedar Key that I wasn’t expecting are the palm tree berries strewn all over sidewalks and the golf carts. The carts go about 20 miles an hour and are the preferred mode of in-town transportation for many Islanders. Everyone personalizes their carts with stickers, flags or […]
Today I stopped to smell the roses that were sprawled along a white picket fence.. I walked through a pink door into a store that sells books and has a wireless internet connection. I did not go fishing. Today I sat on a purple bench to write this down. I learned that palm trees drop […]
“I feel like I’m arriving in a dream sequence, like I’ve been here before in my dream life,” I said to Joe after we had been in Cedar Key, Florida, for all of five minutes. We were checking into a fuchsia colored camp office. A man in hip boots was dumping oyster shells from buckets […]
1. The first sign of spring we saw on our south bound road trip was in Statesville, North Carolina, when we had to detour off Interstate 77 for an accident and drove by a house with a front yard full of purple crocuses. 2. We were driving slow enough at that point that I rolled […]
1. I just sent an email to a friend and ended it with: I’m up to my white streak with packing for our trip to Florida. Because we’ll be in the camper, we take everything, even the kitchen sink! 2. I said to my husband last night, “It’s cold with a capitol F! You can […]
The February Porch Vacation is cancelled until further notice or until we can reschedule it to a warmer climate. Post Notes: November porch vacation is HERE. January porch vacation is HERE. We got snow but not that much. The photo is of my mother’s porch on the coast of Hull, Massachusetts.
Some people bring home stray puppies. I bring home rocks. Over the years I’ve collected river rocks, lava rocks, Virginia quartz, pink and green flecked granite from New England, blue and orange stones from the shores of Oregon, and more. I like rocks, but I’m even more drawn to seashells. My interest in shells began […]
My brother John figured in “The Jim and Dan Stories,” the book I wrote about growing up as one of nine children in Hull, Massachusetts, and the deaths’ of two of my brothers in 2001. John was the one who added to our family’s plumbing problems when he was a kid and he tried to […]
1. At the crossroads 2. Living lightly on the earth 3. Now you see it 4. Now you don’t Post note: On my walk to the mailbox on Thursday, I documented the much anticipated inch of snow we got, which was gone by the next day. The face pot in the tree is one made […]
Still rough, but shot with light when polished and cut by an audience and set by publication. The poet can build a meandering path to insight like glimpses through the trees to a lake in sunlight. ~ From “A Poet of 20 Carats” by Alex Wind As soon as I cleaned my kitchen table from […]
1. Do you know any of THESE bloggers? The last time I looked when I found it on Pearl’s blog I could pick out about seven that I knew. 2.THIS (via Susan) might blow your mind. It’s a glimpse into autistic woman’s inner world, providing insight into autism unlike anything I’ve seen before. You have […]
