1. These days our knights on white horses are the local farmers on tractor plows coming to plow us out. 2. In light of the Supreme Court’s recent vote not to limit corporate campaign spending, I think THESE new robes are well suited. 3. I recently became interested in the poetry of Haitian […]
~ The following was published in the winter 2010 issue of All About Her, a regional newspaper insert. When Kamala Bauers was 10 years old, her 7-month-old brother James suffered complications from Spinal Meningitis that left him severely disabled. Today, Bauers and her husband Jack Wall are celebrating their 15th year as directors of Wall […]
Haiku with high tea Best to sip slowly Don’t brew the oolong too long Note: Click and scroll HERE for more teapoet poems.
The snowed-in took advantage of Sunday’s sun to get outside for a walk in the neighborhood. This group broke the cabin fever with tea and cookies and good conversation inside the warmth of our house before heading back up the homegrown plowed hill to their farm. The creeks were full and rushing. Old mailboxes were […]
Snowed-in and sick, but it could be worse. We got Nora Jones on the stereo, dry wood for the stove, and a pot full of hot miso soup. We got tissues and cough drops, a down comforter spread. We got PBS and a library movie to watch. Our neighbor plows the driveway for the third […]
~ The following appeared in The Floyd press on February 4, 2010. Computer consultant Ben Kiser is not your average technician. The 1999 ECPI College of Technology graduate and owner of Kiser Computing Consulting LLC not only repairs computers and keeps them running smoothly, he also makes house calls. Kiser, a North Carolina native and […]
1. Ipod and Ipad inventors are running out of vowels for naming their future inventions. Somehow Ipud, Ipid, and Iped don’t ring a bell. 2. I can’t help wondering if Apple co-founder and Ipad inventor Steve Jobs’s productivity has anything to do with his last name (and the fact that it’s plural). 3. Jobs, a […]
Sparkling night ignited Stars boil over from the big dipper a milky way of tea ~ From Teapoet, my chapbook of tea haiku and other sips of poetic brew. More teapoems can be read HERE.
Last week I got an email from Gary, who blogs at Coffee Muses, telling me that my Asheville potter son Josh Copus is featured in the Artist Spotlight of the latest issue of Our State magazine. I hadn’t seen it yet and neither had Josh, but we got our hands on one quick. “I got […]
