1. I’m happy to be home where the carrots grow, where the day’s work is making pesto and the sweet potatoes fresh out of the ground marks the start of Thanksgiving. 2. I dreamt that I couldn’t tell the difference between Joe’s almond butter and his sunflower butter. In fact, I couldn’t taste either and […]
Art can be a cure for the pandemic/election blues. So, I went to an art exhibit at the Floyd Center for the Arts. It was curated by master potter, 16 Hands co-founder/member and FCA’s 2020 featured artist Silvie Granatelli. Silvie not only shares some of her personal collection of other potters’ work, which she describes […]
And they played Mustang Sally, so my night was made! It was the 3rd Annual Customer Appreciation Day & Fall Festival at the Buffalo Mountain Brewery. By evening, we had a committed dance contingency, just like old times before the pandemic. CC Coates’ consummate musicianship had us up dancing (outside) right away, and once we […]
Writing a poem It’s like doing a crossword puzzle I’ve made some good connections but there are also empty spaces that I might be able to fill if I just plug away if a lucky break outweighs the urge for giving up if I don’t flip back to the last pages to see the predetermined […]
1. While on the beach in Delaware, I kept thinking I saw Joe Biden every time I saw an older man in a cap with his stature. 2. Special tea or specialty? 3. Working on a poem that Joe wants me to read to him, but I’m not ready: “I know what I’m doing but […]
The moon’s nourishing light is a night staple like food on the table the first phase is set _______Colleen Redman
A beachcomber’s drift is a writer’s last resort when you’re ghosted by a poem you almost wrote When you lost your pick swallowed by salt water when the breakers take you under and sweep the shore clean But soon you start again with a second fiddle poem the ocean in a shell listening to itself […]
Sun or shade sandpiper ballet sandbox spa seagulls caw happy clams make tidal plans dolphins cruise the salty blue _______Our World Tuesday
1. Text to Joe while dog sitting: I was trying to get a picture of me and my new friend Petunia to send to Bryce (our grandson who loves dogs) when she French kissed licked me. 2. Her name is Petunia but I keep calling her Tuna or Tulip. 3. Our first day at the […]
______Our World Tuesday/ Wordless Wednesday
It’s slow going with my house on my back like our Palomino truck camper with the windows loosely latched I’m headed to the beach Not the one from my childhood but the closest one I can find I hear the crunch of driveway gravel and feel the threat of oblivious drivers who justify the means […]
Aka: Whodunnit? ______________Wordless Wednesday
