13: My 2 Cents Worth
1. I was recently at Blue Mountain School documenting Kari Kovick’s early childhood class when I sat in the grass and right there before me sat two pennies (pictured on the left).
2. When I was a girl, loafers had slots in them for pennies, but most people put dimes in the slots in case they needed to make a phone call. A thin dime, that’s all a pay-phone call cost back then.
3. Song I made up when my two sons were young that I get to sing again to my two grandsons: “I got 2 boys … and their bundles of joy!”
4. I have a collection of miniature plastic frogs that my grandson Bryce and I have named: Hop and Pop, Tip Top, Don’t Stop, Flip Flop and B-bop.
5. Poets are the nutty professors of words.
6. Funny Belated April Fool’s News Bloopers HERE.
7. When I was a girl I once had 80 cents in change and felt rich. I decided I was going to keep it in my pocket to jingle it around with my hands like I watched the men in my life do. Then I went out to play, forgot about it and I guess it fell out. I never saw that money again and still feel the loss.
8. I have an imaginary blog called Loose Change: How a Writer Spends Her Time.
9. Sometimes I wonder what Thomas Paine would think of blogging.
10. Yesterday I googled myself into writing a poem. See HERE
11. “You can use a computer, but I always say you should be able to write with a pen, because someday your computer might break, or you might not have access to electricity. It’s sort of like driving: you still have to know how to walk.” ~ Natalie Goldberg
12. Isn’t it ironic that I spend so much money at restaurants looking for the kind of food I cook at home?
13. A penny for your thoughts?
April 19th, 2012 12:53 am
As usual, a wonderful T13—and I liked the way it seemed to have a theme….Pennies and Money and writing Poetry…..! Love the name LOOSE CHANGE and what that blog would be about, too….lol!
GREAT, Colleen…!
April 19th, 2012 6:33 am
Not play the 13 myself this week but, as always, enjoyed yours. I wouldn’t “change” a thing.
April 19th, 2012 7:16 am
I love that Goldberg quote! I find I write differently with a pen and paper than I do at the keyboard.
April 19th, 2012 8:13 am
I think I like this TT better than others. I absolutely love that you found the 2 pennies in#1. The poem is awesome in #10. And my thoughts today are LOVE!! I am with Sophia and I am commenting on your blog!
April 19th, 2012 10:28 am
I remember pay phones costing a quarter, but these days they are nearly extinct. So many people have cell phones that a lot of places got rid of their public phones.
April 19th, 2012 3:29 pm
Love your song in #3. My husband had a similar song for our babies, as did my grandma for my brother & me. The made up songs are the best. 🙂
April 19th, 2012 3:41 pm
There is something quite nice about the jingle of change in a pocket!
April 22nd, 2012 6:36 am
i remember pay phones being a dime. do you remember long distance person to person or station to station calling optons? i would call person to person for myself when i wanted to let someone know i had made it to a destination safely! that way i didn’t have to pay for a call since i didn’t want to talk anyway.
i had penny loafers in several colors and loved them! bass weejuns and lady bostonians! i can’t believe i can remember this in light of how much i seem to forget!
you probably stood on your head and all your change fell out of your pocket!
this was a little walk down memory lane. fun!
April 22nd, 2012 10:32 am
I don’t remember person to person calls but I remember as far back as operators making each call and party lines, when you’d pick up the phone and other people were using your line and you had to wait to make your call!
April 22nd, 2012 10:37 am
pay phones are all disappearing around here. are yours 50 cents a call now? most don’t seem to take a credit card with a chip so I went to phone my mom from the road to say we’re running late. $14 in change svp it said.
you might like this tae on poetry,
April 23rd, 2012 1:23 pm
I love that, Pearl. It’s certainly worth more than a penny!
April 25th, 2012 4:08 pm
Isn’t it funny, the memories that stick with us?!