Loose Leaf Notes

1. This is not a yard ornament. Stop Thief!

2. Something funny involving a bunny HERE.

3. Cannibals are scarier than zombies because they do or have actually existed.

4. I’m so tempted to hit the Publish button on an empty blog post and then say, “I can’t remember what I was going to say here.”

5. Photographer – I pour through every picture / like an eye-witness at a line-up / Ruling out the usual suspects / Looking for proof of concept…  Read the rest of my poem Photographer HERE. 

6. Don’t let the plain gray color fool you.  THIS bird knows how to sing.

7. Driving While Rabbit? I Think That’s Illegal.  See HERE.

8. As a girl I always held out hope that I would hear the nightingale’s song in the woods. I guarded myself against adults who could have been the Snow Queen in disguise. Whenever I went out walking, I had the urge to drop bread crumbs to mark the way. Rhymes like Hey Diddle Diddle the cat and the Fiddle fostered an early love of sound and world play.

9. My introduction into the world of archetypes came when I was a girl by way of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. To this day Rumplestilskin and the Snow Queen repeatedly show up in my poetry. When I first saw the kiln at the university where my potter son was a student, memories were stirred of Hansel and Gretel pushing the witch that had imprisoned them into the oven. When I’m in the garden, I watch rabbits and wonder which one is Peter. Because of the story of Cinderella, a pumpkin will always be magical to me. – More from Once Upon a Time, a 2008 blog post HERE.

10. I really like the zing in amazing and the ring in spring.

11. Even Roseanne Connor wouldn’t say what Roseanne Barr did.  But Trump might. Too bad he can’t be so easily cancelled.

12. The Odd Couple? You’ll never guess HERE.

13. Don’t try THIS at home.

__________Thirteen Thrusday