1. I recently discovered that when you’re measured in a doctor’s office they do not record ½ inches. The last time I got measured the nurse told me that and after measuring me, she asked if I wanted her to write down 5 foot or 5 foot 1 inch, to which I replied, “I want […]
Poets rhyme sugar with teacup and saucer They alliterate morning with mug
What lies beneath is eighteen years of junk collected in the cellar, piled on the pool table we bought to keep teenaged boys home a little longer, crammed into cement block corners, strewn on dusty shelves. We didn’t even need the three new tarps to order the disorder, as described on Oprah by her un-clutter […]
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press newspaper on July 9, 2009. Any “loss” contains the potential of renewal.” Kanta Bosniak When Kanta Bosniak left Floyd in 2007 to make a new life in her home state of Pennsylvania, she didn’t know it would include a personal battle with cancer. Today, as a […]
1. Show stopper 2. Scene Stealer 3. Heart Breaker 4. Side Splitter
The island was known as Noepe, “land amid the streams,” by the Wampanoag Indians who inhabited it (still do). “Martha’s Vineyard” is said to have been named in 1602 by English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold for his daughter and the island’s wild grapes. It was called Martin’s Vineyard (most likely after Gosnold ship’s captain, John Martin) […]
1. Said to Joe while driving on Interstate 95 from D.C. to Massachusetts, “If we’re not broke from paying tolls we can stop and buy some dinner.” 2. Not only is driving on Interstate 95 a nightmare, they make you pay for the grief they give you, to the tune of about $40 to get […]
A tour of the gingerbread cottages in Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard is like walking into a storybook. The perfectly preserved and elaborately decorated cottages were built in the mid 1800’s as part of a Methodist summer campground. Tucked away in the middle of town and entered through a downtown alleyway, many of the more than […]
1. Hometown Colors 2. Glad for Gloriosa Club Med 3. Diving Board Disco (video HERE.) 4. A New Josh in Town 5. Say Cheese
Our trip up to Hull, Massachusetts, for a family cookout and to take my mother to Martha’s Vineyard was planned as a mix of vacation and networking for the meditation retreats that my husband Joe runs. It became a tour of carousels when, after an exquisite Irish dinner of “bangers and mash” and Guinness, we […]
1. My two favorite words heard recently are brouhaha and jalopy. 2. I keep getting the Jubilee and the Jamboree mixed up. We have both in Floyd now. 3. I’ve been calling the Station, the newly renovated old building in town with apartments upstairs, the Dakota of Floyd. 4. While shopping this week I saw […]
A scented cloud lifts from a lake of Darjeeling Bamboo flute notes rise Post Note: Click and scroll down HERE for more tea poems.
