1. Making THIS is not as easy as it looks. 2. What if Dear Abby’s name was Prudence? 3. Ah or Ha? 4. A smile is an instant face-lift. 5. Smiling can trick your brain into happiness — and boost your health. A smile spurs a powerful chemical reaction in the brain that can make […]
1. Hang up or hang out? 2. Tense or intense? 3. Line seen on Facebook: Halloween is my favorite color. 4. Also seen on Facebook: The proper term for senior women should be queenagers. 5. Strand by Strand / her world closes in / By her own design / she hangs by a thread. 6. […]
1. mummy or mommy? 2. They work like dogs for dogs – A thought after meeting local Humane Society volunteers while attending a fundraiser for a Floyd Press news story. 3. Stumbling blocks or stepping stones? – A thought after talking with a member of one of Bob Childress’s stone churches for an upcoming story. […]
1. Scrabble is the “Can’t Build a Better Mousetrap” of games. 2. White hair is the new platinum blonde. 3. I write like I play Scrabble: Those first few plays should be good ones because they set the tone of the game in the same way the first few sentences set up a story. […]
1. Dreaming is sort of like a religion to me because unlike ancient religious tenant or New Age spiritual bypass, dreams are direct and have no platitudes. 2. If dreaming is the religion than writing poetry is the practice. 3. I probably like dreaming so much because I like can’t handle mind-altering substances of any […]
1. Is it B or 13? 2. Silence or quiet? 3. Quiet means lowering the volume but silence is turning it off. 4. I hear the planets spin / and the weight of a complaining needle / scratching in the background / like an exasperated breath / across creation’s restless conscience – Read Quiet in […]
1. I used to only like to collect perfect shells. Now I like the varied shaped broken ones best. 2. Washed up moon shell / Turn your ear towards its shine / Hear the poetry of galaxies / in its phosphorescence tide 3. Just Breathe: A recent study has shown that deep breathing with longer […]
1. I used to say the Trump administration is a house of cards but now I say it’s a house of flaming cards. 2. The words candle and clandestine seem strangely related. 3. We wait for poems that fit like skin / We dream them from a distance / then write them close in / […]
1. What’s the difference between infinity and eternity? 2. “Spelling.” That’s what the first person I asked that question to at Floyd YogaJam Infinity this weekend answered. 3. Someone else said, “One is always and the other is forever.” 4. It was one dance party after another, starting with Noah Proudfoot and the Botanicals, who […]
1. It all goes downhill after I have to put on socks. 2. You know how they say ‘good eye’ in baseball? I say it to photographers. 3. Lying on a rock with my camera in hand and on my lap after hiking to the Cascades waterfall, I said to my sister Sherry, “This is […]
1. Mary Poppins: parasol or umbrella? 2. “Don’t expect the mirror to smile first.” – A’Court Bason 3. It was like an invasion. There were blow-up aliens everywhere at the Cirque du Floyd over the weekend. 4. I haven’t followed the news in a week, since my sister and her husband have been here on vacation. […]
1. Corn is the new candy! 2. And a lounge chair at the pool is the new napping nursery. 3. This is the place where I have nothing to write because I’m working on a story about Floyd Yoga Jam. 4. I couldn’t find my bell-bottoms HERE. 5. “Tea to the English is really a […]
