1. Just when I thought that maybe I should get a real part-time job, I was hired to write four stories about Floyd. 2. Several people that I don’t know want to buy THIS from me. 3. All I know is that Democrats have to work together, bringing experience, skill and caution together with bold […]
1. Who’da thunk? A little punk, funk, reggae, psychedelic, electric, authentic, Indie rock would have us dancing without stop for a two-hour set! See a Get Right Band at Dogtown video HERE. 2. Can you believe this sentence is correct? “All the faith he had had had had no effect on his life.” 3. Where’s […]
1. A tree’s buried roots / are as real as its branches / The poems are the test / and the dreams are the answers – from The Shape of Truth HERE. 2. Rats can recognize colors and understand left and right, but they can’t put the two together to locate a biscuit left of the […]
1. It was so cold Sunday night that when Joe and I went to watch a movie in our bedroom, I said, “I’m going undercover,” as in blankets and comforters. 2. We watched Blackkklansman, which was based on a true story about the first African-American police officer/detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department who went […]
1. Recently seen: commend more and condemn less. 2. Poetry is a condensed form of expression that doesn’t follow the rules of prose like a dream isn’t limited by reality. 3. The couch is a lifeboat / I manage to inflate / The poem is a fish story / that doesn’t hold water / It’s […]
1. The pouring of tea is like the conversation that comes after the contemplation of the steeping. The darker the steeping, the deeper is the taste of meaning. 2. “This portal! How remarkable that it’s there in your kitchen. The wonder of gazing down that rabbit hole, that well of wisdom—into fantastic pictures, to stories […]
1. Some people are on their honeymoon in sunny Australia while others are preparing to fly to Florida to play golf. 2. But all you need for my kind of vacation is a little sun. Close your eyes and you’re there: anywhere. 3. No, that’s not a ski slope. 4. We didn’t see the ball […]
1. Netflix’s Peeky Blinders, which Joe likes to call Squeaky Binders, is the Breaking Bad of Downton Abbey. 2. “Don’t go to the next location.” That’s what I tell myself when I wake up in the middle of the night and don’t want to go down the mind’s path of thinking. 3. My writing is […]
1. Could “stake,” as in “stake a claim,” be a mutant plural of “take?” 2. The more things change, the more they remain the same: Right before I took a series of photos of Joe wrestling with our grandsons, Bryce and Liam, I came across some old photos of Joe wrestling our sons, Josh and […]
1. A bonfire, a high tea and a slime making workshop are all on my calendar this month. 2. I bought a calendar with pictures of Monet’s Garden when Joe and I were in Paris in August, but just now noticed it’s all in French with only French holidays are marked down. 3. After getting […]
1. “Don’t blow your wish, blow out the candle and make one,” I said to Joe on his birthday. 2. What do you get for a man who doesn’t want cake and says, “Instead of cake, I’m more of a venison steak man?” 3. In the thirty years Joe and I have been together, I’ve […]
1. Last week my grandson Bryce made a puppet in a wheelchair for a school team project about bullying. 2. I pop up like a puppet every evening at 6:30 to watch the nightly news. 3. People Are Already Talking About It: that’s the new buzzword going around ever since we decided to bring back […]
