1. My dogwood and redbud trees seem to have long lasting blooms this year, but it’s really that I’ve been home every day, and going out now means to the porch to enjoy them. 2. Drive-thru haircuts, anyone? 3. Some say ‘keep the faith’ while others say ‘don’t believe the hype.’ 4. Who do you […]
1. Every time I look at this picture I think of Van Gogh’s ear. 2. Confession: I regularly pilfer NYT articles by rapidly cutting and pasting them into a document before the fire wall goes into effect. 3. And Facebook is on to me. It keeps sending me ads for great toys that I can’t […]
1. My husband Joe, a counselor who runs an addiction day program, is working at home. 2. Last week I went to a webinar birthday celebration for his mom, who just turned 91. 3. The birds are my entertainment. The garden is my work. 4. Last week the song Can’t Touch This was going round […]
1. I’ve heard that a lot of babies will be conceived and a lot divorces will follow this time of sheltering in place. 2. Not to mention that a lot of us will be having regular daily bad hair days. I need a haircut right now. 3. Cropping my photographs is like cutting my bangs. […]
1. Shelter or shutter? 2. The song ‘You can’t touch this’ has been going through my head. 3. I posted the above on Facebook and someone answered with “Don’t Stand So Close to Me.” 4. Wild or Mild? 5. Bono wrote a new song “Let Your Love Be Known,” a St Patrick’s Day gift to […]
1. Not only is there currently no hand sanitizers sold in stores, you can’t buy the ingredients to make your own. 2. I don’t like to be away from a new poem for too long and find myself giving it the once over more than once. 3. Is it a coincidence that the word panic […]
1. What a world. My first boyfriend just talked to my former brother-in-law on my Facebook timeline. 2. Trump is the Spinal Tap Rockumentary of the American Presidency. 3. I wrote #2 after hearing Trump say this about the coronavirus at the CDC: “I like this stuff. I really get it… every one of these […]
1. I lied in my dream last night. I said to someone I was in conversation with, “I still go to church occasionally because I like the atmosphere of magic and mystery and it feels like being in a womb.” I should have said, “When I was a kid, the thing I liked about (Catholic) […]
1. Playing chess is like driving in a city, and the chess pieces are like cars confusing me by going every which way in different directions. 2. It’s all chickadees and titmouse out there, but I can’t believe a word they say. I should be excited for spring but don’t feel like we really had […]
1. I only have a window of opportunity when poetry breezes through. It’s like watching the clouds and seeing pictures in them, but if I look away for a minute, they’re changed or gone. I can recall what blew in but it’s never quite the same putting it in words, more like recreating first-hand information […]
1. Is swell the mutant plural of well? 2. When does fantastic become fanatic? 3. “They told me I only have 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week. I’m thinking maybe Quentin Tarantino does a movie about it. In the end, the adults do the […]
1. Every time my answering machine lights up with “13” messages, I want to take a picture of it and post it here. 2. The beauty of a blog is that no paper journal has ever had a search bar. 3. Then again, the blog is only as real as its server, its paid domain […]
