1. Passenger Seat Highway Highlight: Watching the psychedelic display with eyes closed as the sun flashes through the trees on the sides of the road while listening to Jim Hendrix sing Hey Joe. 2. And then there is this. 3. I like tunnels but not bridges, rooms rather than open floor plans, and hills rather […]
I hadn’t seen a Christmas light display this spectacular since I walked the Boston Gardens with all the trees aglow, a tradition that I used to love to do every year when I lived near Boston MA. It was the 30-year anniversary of Winterfest of Lights outdoor walking tour in Ocean City, near where we […]
Have you heard of Tuesdays with Morrie? We spent our Tuesday with our Portsmouth friend Maury, on the way to spend Thanksgiving with Joe’s mom and sister. There was meditation, breathwork, treats to eat, new and old friends to meet and good conversation. We had scrambled eggs for breakfast. Maurie still had tomatoes and basil […]
1. I gave myself an exercise to write a poem, then I pushed it up the hill. 2. “What wakes me at night / is the thought of everyone / and everyone’s trash / a gold rush / for fool’s gold / and a self-assured notion / that Wall Street is Eden / that we […]
5 of Cups – In the Tarot tradition, the 5 of Cups signifies disappointment, sorrow over past events and a tendency to “cry over spilt milk,” but 6 of cups represents creativity, sharing, goodwill and childhood.
I measure out darkness like a potion I know will kill me when my body is a riddle tied in knots a host for virus and plastic because the world is not a promise the moon is not a puppet and the sun doesn’t owe us light What wakes me at night is the thought […]
1. Who says “za” for pizza? No one I know, but it’s a word you can use when playing Scrabble. 2. If I Have to Die 3. Today’s poetry was paper trash / Unrequited loves that broke my heart / Teased out lines written in circles / Big ideas that fell flat – From I […]
We all went down the dark road heading out of town with Stephen Jenkinson and the band because these are the times we live in and Jenkinson is a truth teller and literary spell maker. It was a grand shamanistic ritual of altered proportions, a Grandin Theater performance of poetry, storytelling, rock and roll and […]
Some jam with that? All the way from Mississippi. Whether the memorable sound of The Dead or Pink Floyd or their originals sandwiched in between, The Royal Horses were thoroughly entertaining. I got a merchandise pin, pinned on by the band’s drummer in thanks for all my dancing. Joe says, “If they’re not on your […]
The kleenex box got passed around the classroom a few times at the Radford University Death and Bereavement class where Katherine Chantal and I were recently guests, sharing our Grief and Relief, Soulful Aging Poetry to counseling students. Professor Alan Forrest was our host, and it wasn’t the first time I had been a featured […]
1. Although my father was 75% Irish with a mother born in County Cork, his paternal grandfather was born in Sweden and stowed away on ship to come to America as young man. A shipmate on the same ship with the surname Redman died on the way and my great grandfather ended up taking his […]
Joe and I just became very excited about the new Amazon SciFi series “The Peripheral,” not only because it’s an exciting movie-quality SciFi premise where Avatar meets Free Guy but because our son Josh and his wife Emily’s Old Marshall Jail in Marshall NC shows up prominently within the first 10 minutes of the first […]
