1. A spider web catches the fly and always catches my eye. 2. I had a dream with a poem in it that was titled “I Don’t Tell You My Dreams Anymore.” 3. Booking a hot tub in Hot Springs NC over the phone is like trying to get a ticket for a Grateful Dead […]
1. I’m happy to be home where the carrots grow, where the day’s work is making pesto and the sweet potatoes fresh out of the ground marks the start of Thanksgiving. 2. I dreamt that I couldn’t tell the difference between Joe’s almond butter and his sunflower butter. In fact, I couldn’t taste either and […]
1. While on the beach in Delaware, I kept thinking I saw Joe Biden every time I saw an older man in a cap with his stature. 2. Special tea or specialty? 3. Working on a poem that Joe wants me to read to him, but I’m not ready: “I know what I’m doing but […]
1. Text to Joe while dog sitting: I was trying to get a picture of me and my new friend Petunia to send to Bryce (our grandson who loves dogs) when she French kissed licked me. 2. Her name is Petunia but I keep calling her Tuna or Tulip. 3. Our first day at the […]
1. Some say ‘home is where you hang your hat.’ I say it’s where you hang your bathrobe. 2. I don’t know what kind of spider the above is, but there’s been a lot of strange insects showing up on Facebook lately like THIS bagworm, a moth that spins its cocoon in its larval life, […]
1. I recently stalked a hummingbird in my yard. A stake-out on Saturday produced sightings of three different kinds of hummingbirds, including a ruby-throated one that I wasn’t able to photograph because the greyish one kept dive bombing it from the feeder. I learned that Hummingbirds are extremely territorial and aggressive. 2. The hummingbird also […]
1. Full proof or fool proof? 2. A friend recently commented that they’d vote for me if I ran for Congress after reading THIS poem. 3. A vote of confidence is the only kind of vote I could accept. 4. I told Joe that going out to hear live music and not dancing is like […]
1. I don’t have a lot to juggle in these pandemic times, but so many parts of my life feel up in the air. 2. Don’t try THIS at home, only at Grandma’s house. 3. “The pandemic is a beautiful thing for an old guy like me. Young people do all the complaining so I […]
1. Trump lovers are like women who are always attracted to the bad boy even after he abuses them. 2. New bumper sticker: BYEDON 3. Suspicious activity: When a person with a Chinese accent calls to say they’ve suspended your social security because of suspicious activity. 4. The only thing our current representative is worth […]
1. I love to swim but I don’t like swimming in cold water like I don’t like biking up hills. 2. The first full dunk and breast stroke in the Great Oaks pool is like the first haul of a good IPA. 3. I don’t suppose I can get one of THESE for Christmas 4. […]
1. Joe looking for the mayonnaise jar buried in the back of the fridge for me: “You’re better looking but I’m better at looking.” 2. Alice or Dorothy? 3. I’d really like to tour THIS abandoned clown house. 4. Me to Joe at the beach: “Don’t think about sharks. Don’t think about the chickens home […]
1. Here at Atlantic Beach there are whistling gulls that trill repeatedly in short bursts as they fly by. The first time I heard them, I thought it was someone’s ring tone, or a lifeguard’s whistle. 2. I brought a beach book, but so far mostly I’ve just been reading menus in search of fried […]
