Mara says what she likes best about me is how easy I am to please like when she showed me how to make Celtic borders in Microsoft Word I clapped my hands and cheered And when she said – while looking up a word playing scrabble – The dictionary always distracts me I giggled and […]
It was Kathleen’s birthday. Mara brought cherries to share. We met at the Café Del Sol where there were 3 Scrabble boards to choose from and a few bags of mismatched letters, some of which had been purchased at yard sales for parts. The last time we played together, it was Mara’s birthday, and we […]
Joe saw my car parked in front of the Café Del Sol and decided to take a break from his busy counselor workday to come in and say hello. Mara, Leah, and I were gathered around the Scrabble board in the cushy chair corner of the café. After some friendly antics and Scrabble game theatrics, […]
My friend Alex called to set up one of our monthly Scrabble games. We were trying to pick a date in between her cancer treatment, medical tests, and a possible surgery. “It has to be before the 20th because we’re going to Iceland,” she said. What?! Why? I asked. “My sister-in-law offered us a free […]
Even though Mara can beat me at Scrabble about as often as I can beat her, I offered to let her win, seeing as it was her birthday, but she would have no part of it. As it turned out, she could have used some concessions. She was doomed from the start…because of the letter […]
AKA: It’s Mara’s birthday and we have a 4 way Scrabble game planned. I’m feeling self-conscious because I just got my haircut, and I’m hoping that short bangs won’t affect my Scrabble game. (You know, like short hair affected Sampson’s game and long hair helped the Red Sox win the World Series.) I fixed up […]
It was noon when Mara and I set up our makeshift office and scrabble game station in the corner of the Café Del Sol. The last time we played we did so without a net, which meant that neither of us brought a dictionary. On this day, we not only had a dictionary but our […]
AKA: 1. A picture is worth 1000 words… or is that kisses? 2. This is a game where we both win. 3. Got one of your own? HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY XOXO
1. While playing scrabble last week with my friend Mara, at one point she confessed, “I want Sy Safransky (editor of the Sun Magazine) to love me.” I think I can work that line into a poem. 2. I also played with my friend Alex in the sunny alcove of her kitchen. At times her […]
My friend Mara reminds me that when we both worked at the bead shop in Blacksburg, I taped poems to the cash register… It’s all I can do… not to… say “Buckle my shoe”… after “one, two” …when I’m counting out the money… She writes a poem for me… We play scrabble…because we are both…poets […]
Mara came over to break in the new Deluxe Lazy Susan Scrabble game that I got for Christmas from my son Dylan. She brought me a gift. It was something of Elliot’s (our mutual friend that passed away in November) that she had set aside for me when she and some other friends were closing […]
