1. In 15 years of blogging, I only have four posts with the word “pizza” in the title: I’m Really Serious About My Dogtown Pizza, Buy Your Own Pizza and Be Yourself, Pizza Delivery and Dogtown Pizza Comes to Town. 2. I still can’t forgive the Scrabble Word Finders for adding the word ZA for […]
1. Joe asked me on Saturday if I wanted to play Scrabble. “I’m game!” I answered. 2. Deli or Delivery? 3. Maybe the best thing that’s come out of the pandemic is Joe playing Scrabble with me after 30+ years of not. 4. “When the virus is beaten back and we are free to mingle […]
1. My philosophy can be boiled down to: There’s more going on than what we can see. 2. Every death is a big bang / that blows up our pretense / splits us like atoms in two / Wherever you go / a part of me follows / and I carry a part of you […]
1. Marco Island, Florida, is like Aruba without the plane ride. 2. Trudging across the beach sand, I couldn’t decide if it was like being in the Sahara or the Arctic because the sand was snow white. See HERE. 3. I woke up this morning and saw a small piece of tissue on the floor […]
1. I call the above picture “The Pied Piper of Sandpiper.” 2. After Tom Petty died, I decided to yell out “Free Fallin” instead of “Free Bird” at concerts. 3. On the way to the beach on Marco Island, we passed a panther crossing road sign. 4. The funniest thing we saw today was when […]
1. Ice storm on top of pandemic. THIS was my valentine greeting this year. 2. On Valentine’s Day I got a Covid vaccine shot in my left shoulder and later in the day some acupuncture needles for a sore shoulder in my right. “These ain’t no Cupid’s arrows I’m getting shot with,” I said to […]
1. We danced to Music Road Company at Dogtown on Saturday. The trio performed a Bob Marley medley for Marley’s birthday, which they called a “mardley.” 2. Walking in the Floyd cemetery with the library’s Rambling Readers (for a story), I noticed that the cemetery looked like a grave subdivision because most of the gravestones […]
1. When Poetry Becomes Dictation: It’s like having an imaginary friend that no one but you believes in. 2. File the below poem under the heading: At least I got a poem out of it. 3. Reading her poetry / is like splashing liniment / on my right shoulder / that is stiff / My […]
1. THIS is the music we played for our carnival. 2. THIS is the Youtube video my grandson Bryce showed me on Friday that made me roar with laughter. 3. There were magic tricks, games, an apple shack and lime shots. Someone won me a stuffed animal and I wore a basketball hoop on my […]
1. “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen 2. I swing from nostalgia to novelty, the old or the new. 3. It’s kind of sad how much novelty humans need. I think my need for novelty is part why I write poetry, to create something new, see something […]
1. The Way I See It HERE. 2. Listless: without a list of things to do and without the energy to make one. 3. It’s come to this: Saturday I went to town on a scouting expedition to look for snowman. I found four. 4. Then I made one myself and crowned her Snow Queen. […]
1. I don’t like poetry prompts like I didn’t like school homework, but I pay attention in class in both cases. 2. Just for fun: Bunny eating a snowman’s carrot nose off HERE. 3. “We are all going to come very close to closing out the year together, as close as we can get, which […]
