1. I use the pen to get a diagnosis as well as for the treatment. 2. “My page was too white / My ink was too thin / The day wouldn’t write / What the night penciled in…” Leonard Cohen 3. I have to be early if I don’t want to be late. On-time doesn’t […]
1. The popular American saying ‘What’s up Doc’ comes from a Bugs Bunny Cartoon. The writer of the first Bugs Bunny film in 1940 explained that it was a common expression in his native Texas and back then “doc” meant the same as “dude” does today. But rabbits don’t eat carrots. The phrase is actually […]
1. Only in Floyd can you fill up your gas tank in the same place where corn grows. 2. I ordered loaded fries at the Fat Bean food truck for one meal at Yoga Jam and had potatoes with another. “You like potatoes. Are you grain free?” a friend asked. “No, I’m Irish, I answered. […]
1. Because I have a friend named Kamala, pronounced Ka-MaLa, and our presidential candidate’s name is spelled the same but pronounced differently, I’ve been confused. But now I know to pronounce Harris “Comma-La” as her nieces instructed us to at the DNC. 2. In my nearly 20 years of blogging, this is my fifth post […]
1. Be aware or Beware 2. Blah Blah or Blab Blab? 3. “I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again,” Georgia O’Keeffe 4. Summer is like a firefly in a jar. It soon stops being so actively bright, and you eventually have to let it go. Same thing with […]
1. This is the garden party where I shouted Mary Poppin, as in asking my friend Mary (3rd from right) to pop her head into the frame. 2. I spent Friday evening with this stand-up crowd (wait for it). 3. Another stand-up standing room only, standing ovation sing-along. 4. VA 9th District Candidate Karen Baker […]
1. It was a two-party weekend, not to mention that the two-party weekend started with Dogtown dancing to C. C. Coates with friends. 2. Grateful or Greatful? 3. The first party was an annual gratitude party with a Grateful Dead theme hosted by my friend Margie who inherited a home and property from a man […]
1. Disrupt or interrupt? 2. During all my recent Floydfest posting and sharing to two private pages, Facebook started taking down some of my posts. Their message said “It looks like you tried to get likes, follows, shares or video views in a misleading way.” Well, yes, isn’t that why we share? The misleading reference […]
1. That pesky Q. When I played Scrabble at the beach, I was winning until someone went out and I got stuck with a Q. This time it was my friend Jayn who got stuck with it and got 10 points taken off her score. 2. Why do we even have a Q? Isn’t C […]
1. I’ve never been a Florence Nightingale type. I’m more of a Jerry Seinfeld. 2. I’ve done years of therapy. I use dreams to inform me and write poetry as case notes. 3. I’ve never been a Mother Theresa type. More of a nutty professor. 4. My life is like a library book / being […]
1. While in Bethany Beach Delaware for Joe’s family reunion, I learned how to play Wordle, saw dolphins and had clean fingernails for the first time all summer (from swimming in the pool and not gardening). 2. Joe’s 95-year-old mom started our Scrabble game with the word BEACH on a double word score. 3. She […]
1. Here at Bethany Beach, we went to a restaurant to eat dinner last night and there was line (see above). 2. The night before, we went to another restaurant to get some fish tacos and had an entertaining view of below. 3. They want to eat too. 4. After seeing Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Towards […]
