1. Now everybody wants a pair of crocs like Liam’s for Christmas this year. 2. These days “going out” means to the yard. 3. But sometimes it means rainbows, toasted marshmallows and a hare and tortoise race. See HERE. 4. I have a book on Hold at the library called Hold Still. 5. If you […]
1. Me to Joe, who was going to the golf course: Are you going to putt or to putter? 2. “The beauty of quarantine is that you don’t have to see people you don’t want to see, which simplifies life, just as memory loss does. Life comes down to basics. Sleeping, eating, talking, reading, writing, […]
1. With all our mask wearing, we’re all incognito now. 2. As someone who likes to do research, I say ‘look it up’ a lot. 3. Joe went to a family reunion on the beach while I stayed home alone with the shingles, which made me ask, a retreat or a sentence? 4. How uncanny […]
1. Heart and earth are the same word with the letters mixed around, which makes me wonder if the earth is the heart chakra of our galaxy. 2. I wrote THIS poem while waiting to get my haircut after 4 months because they had no magazines to (touch) read at the hairdresser’s shop. 3. Last […]
1. We made up a new game called Mafia Monopoly. 2. These shady characters (pictured above) have something up their sleeve. 3. Every time I see watermelon I think of my late brothers Jim and Dan, who visited here just before they died a month apart, and I snapped a picture of Jim eating […]
1. “To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.” David Whyte 2. Our collective knees are bruised / from the wear of prayer and protest / Sometimes we are called to stand / to shake off the onslaught of insult to injury / Sometimes we are […]
1. Birdfeeder Drama: There’s a little wren making a nest in our bird feeder. She carries twigs and stuffs them in the holes meant for feeding. She chases the other birds away, even the big cowbirds. 2. Trump’s tweets are an insult to the birds. 3. Or as my Facebook friend Mark recently said: All […]
1. We’ve all been doing a lot of hanging out, and hopefully it’s not all on google hangout. 2. I don’t understand the word virtual. It’s like a double negative. Is it real or almost real? The dictionary describes the meaning like this: almost, but not exactly or in every way. 3. A soundtrack of birdsong / […]
1. I keep wanting to say “my sunshine” when I look at the above picture. 2. I made the sign for a family birthday montage for my brother-in-law Ozzie who turned 77. I kept wanting to say ‘sunset strip” after the sign that someone else held that said 77. 3. The only thing on my […]
1. Rush or gush? 2. “Wear a mask; not a tin foil hat. Also, science is real.” – my friend Kanta 3. “Bat shit crazy” has taken on a whole new meaning in this pandemic world. 4. THIS Inflatable Hunk Pool Float Wants to Be Your Summer Boyfriend 5. I’m more of a boomer than […]
1. Where does the sound of a bell go? 2. “We fell asleep in one world, and woke up in another. Suddenly Disney is out of magic, Paris is no longer romantic, New York doesn’t stand up anymore, The Chinese wall is no longer a fortress, and Mecca is empty. Hugs & kisses suddenly become […]
1. My grandsons have Joe and I (happily) eating out of their hands, as the saying goes. 2. It only took my grandson Bryce 12 years to be taller than me. 3. THIS strangely appeals to my sense of humor. 4. “That clench in your throat, the knot in your gut, the tightness in your […]
