1. On the new Beatles documentary Get Back: It’s been a strange experience watching them create songs they don’t know the lyrics to. We know the lyrics but can’t tell them. 2. I lost my train of thought or my thoughts went off track? 3. Writer’s block or time to walk a block? 4. The […]
1. “We are all a thread in the talent tapestry. A snapshot in the cosmic, collective collage.” ― Michele Jennae 2. That’s face painting artist Sally Edelman at Wasena Park in Roanoke working on an art piece that was created collectively for the 540 Culture Fest. 4. Nothing is more powerful than love. 5. Here’s my […]
1. “This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” Maya Angelou 2. This is the time of year when the leaves leave. The wind sings them down / Like a flight of dying monarchs / They drum to the ground / In a color guard parade. 3. A Pun: Please “Leave” the […]
1. Red zinnia flowers after our first freeze remind me that Christmas is coming. 2. October ends with a jackpot of color. By November fallen leaves cover our open acre of green like left-over Halloween candy corn. 3. Garrison Keillor’s Rules for Aging Include: Enumerate your benefits, enjoy inertia, get out of the way, don’t […]
1. Do you ever feel like THIS? 2. “Someone recently asked me if I had plans for the fall. It took me a moment to realize they meant Autumn and not the collapse of civilization.” – Seen on Facebook 3. “Voting isn’t marriage, it’s public transport. You’re not waiting for “the one” who’s absolutely perfect: […]
1. “Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 2. Reading the Tarot / of its leafy spread / Autumn is the Tower / of disruptive change. 3. Apparently, my poetry book, Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife, is […]
1. It was the annual Tour de Dirt fundraiser ride for PLENTY! Farm and Food Bank. Joe, who had a pulled muscle from playing soccer and couldn’t ride this year, was my backseat photographer… See me not get run over at “Sometimes I’m a Newspaper Field Reporter” HERE. 2. After I posted that entry on […]
1. Joe to Colleen at Zadie’s Café at The Old Marshall Jail: Joe: How’s your fish sandwich? Me: I thought it was chicken. Joe: It’s fish. Me: For a minute I thought it was fried clams. Joe: is it Cod? Me: No. Joe is it catfish? Me: No. It’s mild and white. Joe to Josh: […]
1. Poetry is like math. You have to add meaning and sound together and make it equal the right answer. 2. I like a lived-in journal where I know my way around. When I open it, it’s like opening a favorite kitchen junk drawer that holds everything I might possibly need. It’s messy but I […]
1. You’ve heard the saying ‘over the moon?’ Here at Atlantic Beach, it’s ‘over the ocean’ because it’s an island inlet that is south facing and out-of-this-world sunsets are over the ocean. 2. I literally said, “We may as well have died and gone to heaven,” when we arrived at the beach and were transported […]
1. The Apple Just Fell HERE. 2. Joe: Even when I lose my Mo Jo, I can Go. Me: But can you Turbo? Joe: No. 3. As a tea lover who also loves beer and who splashed black tea on my white shirt at Yoga Jam, I said to my friend Gypsy Geoff, who was […]
1. Now is Wow backwards. 2. A good way to get the attention at a loud café poetry reading is to say into the mic, “let’s talk about sex,” which I actually did once. A good way to get Facebook friends to watch a Yoga Jam dance video clip is to ask, “Is that Bernie […]
