1. I want to know why one of my hens is laying eggs with purple speckles on the shells and why the blue twitter bird on twitter was replaced with a dog’s face for weeks. 2. The birds tweet and trill as if coaxing buds open. Wind roars like the surf of my childhood peninsula, […]
1. I couldn’t help thinking of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash singing Girl From the North Country on Dylan’s Nashville Skyline album when I saw the Nashville skyline for the first time. 2. License and registration, please. 3. Here’s Joe working hard at not being a nine-to-fiver. 4. Upon arriving in Nashville, we went to […]
1. Alanis Morissette’s album, Jagged Little Pill, was my Joni Mitchell Blue of the 90s (and in between Joni and Alanis was Tracy Chapman). Turns out that Morgan Wade, our Floyd VA hometown star who sang with Alanis and three other female singers at the CMT awards, has a new song about Morissette’s influence on […]
1. I dreamt all night that I was filling out a form to report how the January 6th insurrection affected me. I kept having to start over or get a new form to fill out. 2. When I lost you in Paris / we were both naïve / not to have made a plan / […]
1. I was playing Old Maid with my youngest grandson and wondered out loud what a comparable word for an old maid would be for a man, and he suggested, “Old Butler.” It took me a moment. 2. As we played cards, my eldest grandson played some Master of Puppets Metallica on guitar. 3. Thug […]
1. Because of my dyscalculia, Joe says, “If you were a band your name would be “Wrong Direction” instead of “One Direction.” 2. The new goal of my poetry readings is: “Reading Poetry that Jack Has Never Heard.” 3. I’ve read with carpenter poet Jack Callan at his Fairmount Five readings in Norfolk, as one […]
1. The forsythia surrounds me like warm bowls of sun. 2. With the flick of a switch the daffodils are lit. 3. Climate changed blooms / come a month too soon / forsythia flowers died / the year Trump won election / tampered in his favor / by Russians and traitors / refugees had no […]
1. Driving down to Roanoke in the rainy fog this weekend, the Bradford Pear trees in bloom looked like February snow. 2. THIS is what I did in Roanoke. 3. My favorite birdsong is wood thrush and cat bird. Click HERE to hear your favorite birdsong. 4. “I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry—poetry in the […]
1. Yeah, that’s about right, the thinking bubble over my head is psychedelic. 2. “Our capacity for what psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has termed “fertile solitude” is absolutely essential not only for our creativity but for the basic fabric of our happiness – without time and space unburdened from external input and social strain, we’d be […]
1. So, Super Bowl is for football and not bowling? 2. On Super Bowl Sunday, my friend Mara posted pictures of her holding all the best-looking bowls in her house. 3. The pre-game Super Bowl spectacle was a little too North Korea looking for me. 4. The Kansas City Chiefs looked like red tootsie pops. […]
1. My husband Joe is my type. 2. Is heaven a gated community? 3. Intimate greetings / on unfolded hearts / Our love is an open book / with its message delivered / at the close of the day / Held at the binding / our sweet sentiments are sealed. – Poem from the ‘90s. […]
1. I came across THIS artist in an old People Magazine: Sam Cox, known professionally as Mr. Doodle, who spent the past two years covering every inch of his 1.5-million$ home in drawings. 2. In the BBC interview, Cox said doodling is “almost like an out-of-body experience. You’re just indulging yourself in this free-flowing state […]
