~ The following year review was done by excerpting the first line in one post of each month. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – Warming up for a game with my poet friend, Mara, I put the Scrabble box by the woodstove after it sat in […]
My neighbor Dolphin lives and teaches in Alaska now. She brought bear meat for the Christmas Eve Yankee Swap. Cloe brought a woven cotton/silk scarf from her recent travels in Thailand, where she ate silkworms and grasshoppers and worked on behalf of rural villagers’ right to sustainable culture. There was salmon caviar on the kitchen […]
Dark brewed oracle Three cups full A holy trinity from St. Brigit’s well Post notes: Coming Soon to a Teaspoon Near You HERE. Christmas pots by Josh.
Hmmmm … Is it for me? OKAY! Cool. My turn? Group Play Time-out Hey where’s my green truck? Upside-down for the count. Note: See the action trailer HERE.
1. Click HERE for my Virtual Christmas Message brought to you by the Auburn School Choir, of which my great-niece is a member. 2. My husband Joe, a counselor, recently expressed to me that he was glad our relationship was strong and that we didn’t need to see a counselor. “But you are a counselor,” […]
1. A Dickens of a Haircut 2. A Peaceful Place to Pause 3. A Humble Stable 4. A North Pole
1. It was a rainy night, five days before Christmas, so I wasn’t expecting much of a turnout for the third Saturday Spoken Word night at the Café Del Sol. But when I arrived, I flung open the door and there was Darth Vader, Mrs. Claus, and a birthday party with cake being passed around […]
Mrs. Claus at the local café is a new take on the Department Store Santa. Ann Bower, a.k.a. Mrs. Claus, says she has a direct line to Santa. “I tell Santa what they want,” she said about the children who sit on her lap and reveal their Christmas wishes to her. Children and the young […]
1. Who let the air out of Christmas? Driving to Christiansburg on Monday I passed a yard full of plastic blow-up Christmas ornaments deflated and spread out on the law. It looked like a Christmas massacre. 2. I was on my way to visit my dear friend Alwyn for a Christmas tea. Alwyn is an […]
At some point in your life one of your kids or someone else might say, “You’re no fun anymore.” You might feel obligated to try and be more fun or you might begin to ponder how your idea of what fun is has changed. Fun is a beautiful combination of words that comes without effort, […]
There were 19 wines to sample and I liked them all. I tried not to get drunk and started thinking that maybe I should have eaten more hors d’oeuvres when we were only half-way through the red wines. By the time we were on to the whites, I had struck up conversations with the guests […]
1. The Red Carpet 2. Two Mannequins and a Man 3. Cherry Garcia 4. Country Sleigh Photos: 1. Taken at a hotel in at National Harbor, DC, where we recently saw Cirque du Soleil. 2. A man decking the halls at the Winter Sun Clothing Outlet. 3. Santa passing out candy canes at the Dickens […]
