1. I won an album in a raffle at the Ballad Swap at the Old Marshall Jail. 2. And I didn’t get locked up. More HERE. 3. Although he’s not a ballad singer, My son Josh, owner of the Old Marshall Jail Hotel and Ballad Swap host, performed Rocky Racoon at the Old Swap, saying […]
1. My fingernails are always dirty but I’m smiling more. 2. I used to think scarecrows were ornamental and that hay bales were put there by farmers for Andrew Wyeth to paint. – Colleen from the 70s 3. Sometimes all I can manage is 13 pictures for 13 Thursday. 4. I like to take random […]
1. Only once in nine years did I make it early enough to hear the Little River Poetry Festival kayakers read from the rock amphitheater on the river, but I did make it to the 7 Voices Poetry Ensemble at 10 a.m. on Sunday, the last day of the festival. 2. Curated by festival co-founder […]
1. Jerry Seinfeld’s Three Keys to a Successful Life: transcendental meditation, lifting weights and expresso 2. A new take on ‘you should get our head examined’ – A brain MRI. 3. Our brains function more like computer algorithms than we think. The more we think about something, the more our brains give us more of […]
1. If you can’t celebrate your triple goddess May birthday with your two friends because your recovering from dental surgery and one of the goddesses lives in Maine, you might have a small house party and share your gourmet carrot cake with family. 2. You might have live music. 3. I celebrated my birthday with […]
1. “We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.” – Ursula Le guin From the Preface to “Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014” 2. Peony rhymes with Poetry: They bulge then pop / like bread in the […]
1. I wonder why Scrabble fun is so much work. 2. A friend who came by to say ‘hi’ during a particularly animated game at The Floyd Country Store nailed it when he called us ScRABBLE Rousers. 3. My first early birthday present: a miniature wooden rolling pin from my friend Mara. “Let’s make little […]
1. Last week I rhymed Bottle and Scrabble in a poem the way Taylor Swift rhymed Aristotle with Grand Theft Auto. 2. I wondered why Azalea isn’t a popular girl’s name. Maybe because its name is Greek for “dry.” The floral name was chosen by Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in the eighteenth century was because […]
1. “The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once, and my conviction is to report that dialogue.” — Stanley Kunitz 2. I think of Taylor Swift as the Joni Mitchell of her time, influenced by the musical trends of today but with the same baring of the soul and […]
1.Dogwood petals: My kind of snow white. 2. Titles for past spring posts over my 19 years of blogging have included: Another Word for Spring is Boing!, The Swing of Spring, Sure Thing Spring, Hello Yellow, A Budding Talent, Thursday’s Spring Roll, Spring Chickens and I Think I’ll Call Spring “Cha-ching!” Or Maybe Just “Bling.” […]
1. Scrabble is a practice of accepting reality and making the next best move you can with the letters you have to work with. 2. Every Scrabble board, like every day, is a blank slate when you start out. 3. The Next Thing You Go Out For: Do you want to go to it because […]
1. I got a Scrabble Bingo with the word “Gummies,” a word that wasn’t on my radar a couple of years ago. 2. I’m not a big cat person or dog person, but I am Dogtown Roadhouse person, which means I love to dance to live music. See HERE. 3. I won the Easter Egg […]
