There was lime green, kelly green, olive, and teal represented at the third Saturday Spoken Word Night, two days before St. Patrick’s Day. Even the sign-up sheet that our master of ceremonies, Alli, held as she announced the readers was green. Alli – standing in for Café Del Sol owner Sally, who we were told […]
At a library book sale in a 25 cent book I found my first four-leaf clover It was an unlikely answer to a curious search while browsing for wisdom through musty print I opened the cover a fortune cookie cracked how sweet was the news the destined chance Faintly green still spending its luck a […]
1. The Tin man’s hat 2. Rumplestiltskin’s moonshine jug 3. Peter and Wendy’s shadows 4. Three wishes granted Post notes: Photos were taken on a fairytale walk in the neighborhood with Joe this past Sunday. The flower, one of the first signs of spring, is coltsfoot.
1. I’ve come to accept that I’m never going to remember how to spell words like Renaissance and restaurant on my own, no matter how many times I write or type them. 2. Intriguing old Appalachian country names recently discovered and added to the list I keep: Men – Burnace, Vent, Talmadge, Enoch, and Elinos. […]
When my Asheville potter son, Josh, was a baby he had a shirt that said “Good as Gold” on it. At first I thought it could refer to his towhead blonde hair and his baby innocence. I later came to think of it as a premonition for his infectious enthusiasm, his ability to attract good […]
Death is associated with murder or disease, pain and dread. What would it be like if we didn’t die? Would we appreciate the time we have and use our life well? Existentialists think death is what gives life meaning. Susun Weed says that sometimes death is the cure. My friend Alex Wind, who died in […]
In spite of my Yankee bluntness and my Irish gift of the gab, I’m a shy person. But I believe the universe sets us up to heal weakness that keep us from being whole, which is what makes a shy person like me take up the open mic, interview people (aka ask nosey questions) for […]
I’m full to capacity from working on a major, long piece of writing. Only flashes of poetry and sketches of words with no goals are allowed on today’s word diet. When I finally slowed down enough, and emptied myself of distraction, this is what I saw: Joe in his camouflaged overalls and wool hat, coming […]
Animated Woman: If Obama is president the black people are gonna take over. They’ll line us white people up and shoot us. Postal Clerk: I think you should go home and go back to bed so you can wake up again.
1. Distracted 2. Two-faced moon 3. Triangle angle 4. Fashion Feng Shui Post notes: 1. Downtown window. 2. Kitchen window. 3. View from my cellar stairs. 4. In Feng sui, the Chinese art of right design placement, splashes of red are said to bring good luck and overcome negative energy.
1. Look what was right under my nose. After seeing a yard full of plastic lawn flamingo and going back later to get a picture but finding they were gone, the following day I went to play scrabble and found these in the Cafe Del Sol window box doing THIS. 2. Flamingos are to the […]
“I’m like a bridge lady who plays Scrabble,” I said to my friend Art, who asked me how I was doing as he was sitting down for lunch at a table next to ours. We were at the Café Del Sol and three of us were playing. Virginia and I were getting in some practice […]
