1. I have my cake and eat it too. 2. The power went out the day before my birthday, May 16. The power company said the estimated time for it to come on was midnight, so power for my birthday, May 17, alright. 3. It happens every year but this is the first year I […]
1. One of my nicknames as a girl was “colly dog,” but I’m actually more of a watchdog because I follow the news like a hound. 2. Some people knit. I thrift shop and then spend hours sewing the clothes I found to make them fit. 3. Looking for shoes on Amazon is like looking […]
1. Interesting how human fingerprints and tree rings look so similar. 2. And that bullies spell bull and lies. 3. I got #2 from watching Severance, which is like Stepford Wives meets the Matrix or The Good Place gone wrong. 4. Break a leg or shake a leg? 5. “The Devil doesn’t need an advocate.” […]
1. This Easter I was missing having an Easter bonnet. And then this happened. 2. I like to call this series of shots “You Wear It Well.” 3. It all started when I was looking for flat bean seeds for planting and no one had them in Floyd, a crop failure I was told. Joe […]
1. The finches flocked / woodpeckers knocked / robins hopped / and the cardinals showed off. 2. Joe was away leading a retreat Easter weekend and so I spent Easter Sunday on my own, celebrating the return of spring by watching congregations of birds, planting potatoes and cold weather greens, enjoying the tulips and what […]
1. The birds are my angels. Their old songs are new. I tell time through the windows by the flowers that are in bloom. 2. I carry my pen / like a lonely heart / ready for a love letter / Ready to be won over / and swept off my feet / by the […]
1. Joe’s Appalachian Trail name became “Overflow Joe,” largely due to his enthusiastic personality, but he also frequently packed away food for later, which led to another version of the name: Leftoverflow Joe. 2. Funny how the word “gas” is in “gastroenterology.” 3. AT trail or AT trial? 4. I recently went on a low […]
1. Hiking the AT is not unlike following the Grateful Dead. Dead heads and AT hikers both become like family as far as camaraderie, support and helping each other goes. There are trail angels who offer supplies and feed the hikers hot food where ever the trail and a road cross. Most of them are […]
1. My dad used to say to my mother, “You look like $100 bucks.” 2. He also used to say (or yell) to us 9 kids, “I want this place looking like a million bucks when your mother gets home!” 3. Change is the name of an old poem I wrote that got published in […]
1. For me, as a virus long hauler for 40 years, “spring fever” is a real thing. As the temperature and sap rises so does my low-grade fever. 2. As a wallflower, I don’t talk to walls, but I do talk to flowers. I tell them they’re pretty and that they make me happy. 3. […]
1. A Winning Love: We are like two sides / of the same coin / Heads or tails / We both win. 2. I asked Joe what song with the word ‘love” in the title comes to his mind first. He answered, “Love Me Do,” by the Beatles. Mine was “What’s Love Got to Do […]
1. I think I’m a Dude: “I think the Dude is an example of someone who doesn’t feel that he needs to achieve anything. He likes lying in the bathtub drinking White Russians with the whale music on. He’s just taking it easy, taking it the way it is. There’s a lot of generosity in […]
