1. My eleven-year-old grandson asked to have the radio on when I was driving him home from school, saying, “Can you turn that podcast back on?” 2. Yesterday I looked up the words tirau and testudo. 3. My idea of being early is not being late. 4. THIS is music to my Boston Massachusetts ears. […]
1. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence but the sky is always bluer on the side of new adventure. 2. You can take that bank shot to the bank! HERE. 3. The canaries in the mine / are singing in January / a swan song for fire tides / […]
1. I recently had a beer called “Literally Wrote the Book.” 2. Here’s what I wrote in a journal in 2003: You spend the first half of your life in input – learning, receiving and taking it all in – and the second half of your life in output –turning all you have taken in […]
1. “Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?” Neil Gaiman: “Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.” 2. “In winter, we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half concealed, but from […]
1. My grandsons and Joe formed an improv rap band that we named “Hopa Joe and the Whaddaya Know.” 2. But then we discovered that 9-year-old Liam was a natural front man, so we changed the name to “Little Lee and the Family Three.” 3. Bryce’s band name is “Bryce the Silent Type.” 4. Speaking […]
1. My poem “Losing Poetry” was just published in POETiCA REVieW. See HERE. 2. I Want You to Do Me a Favor, Though. Aka: Now That’s What I Call a Punchline below. 3. In Colonial language necessaries translates to “the bathroom.” 4. In Old Colonial Williamsburg last weekend, there was a long line of tourists […]
1. When I find myself feeling bad that I missed seeing Santa at the Floyd Christmas parade this year, I remind myself that I met at least four Santas in Colonial Williamsburg over the weekend. There was the traditional Santa Christmas Card ‘Tell me what you want for Christmas’ department store Santa. 2. There was […]
1. Black Holes Could Be Gateways to Parallel Universes. Or A ‘Mirror World’ Could Be Hiding Behind Dark Matter, a hypothetical kind of matter that cannot be seen with telescopes but accounts for most of the matter in the universe. – More from 8 Clues that Suggest Parallel Universes Exist HERE. 2. Exist then exit? […]
1. I recently read Joe a bedtime poem. It was a new poem, ironically titled “When Sleep Plays Hard to Get,” which Joe doesn’t have a problem with. “That’s brilliant,” he said when I was done. I read him a second new poem, and when I finished, he was silent. Or was he just speechless? […]
1. I was thinking about getting my daughter-in-law a birdhouse for Christmas but then I remembered she had three cats. 2. I once started a collage series of self-portrait photographs where I cut out a space between the top of my head and a hat, maybe as a way to put image to my fragile […]
1. My poem “Predator Politics” was published a few weeks ago at Wine Drunk Sidewalk: Shipwrecked in Trumpland HERE, a week before that my poem Nightly News Prison Break was published on the same site. 2. Last week on election day, I saw a man with a hat that read “Deplorable,” which made me want […]
1. So, I wrote a poem with the term “stream of consciousness” in it. Curious, I did some research on its actual meaning and learned it was first used for a literary technique by James Joyce when he put a microphone in his character’s heads and showed how they think. Eventually, I ended on a […]
