1. My grandson Liam (8) and I are getting so good at Monopoly that I had to buy more house pieces on Amazon. 2. When I see TOMHANKS’ name in print I see THANKS. 3. I got curious about the word “cheapskate” so I looked up the origin of the term and learned this: “An […]
1. My writer’s bio on this blog, titled A Likely Story, goes like this: I was newly retired from providing foster care for an adult with developmental disabilities and was writing mostly political commentaries but was burned out from that kind of writing. Ready to turn over a new leaf, I wanted to have more […]
1. When I feel uninspired and try to write poetry, it’s like going against gravity, 2. Sometimes when I look at the word pottery, I see the word poetry. 3. And every time I type or see the word “look,” I think of Dick and Jane and remember learning to read. 4. My grandson just […]
1. One of the most interesting costumes I came across at the annual Halloween Masquerade Ball at the Pine Tavern was a woman with progressive activist stickers and buttons on her clothes. She had a blue glove, which she put on and then waved to me. 2. Is the blue wave the wave of the […]
1. Over the weekend, I had to phone in my poem to my husband who was driving to New York to lead a retreat. 2. I dreamt I was eating from a traditional Greek buffet. I woke up with reflux. 3. It’s late October, so I drove up to the Blue Ridge Parkway looking for […]
1. Like Kanye with MAGA hat and cape? / Like an athlete on steroids? / Like tiger-blooded Charlie Sheen? / Is winning really everything? – Read the rest of my poem “Winning?” HERE. 2. After Kanye’s debacle at the White House last week, NPR came out with a reading of a poem written by Leonard […]
1. Because of fungus, insects, disease and raccoons, we had the worst garden this year in all the 27 years we’ve lived on our property. 2. But at least our potato harvest has been bountiful. 3. My Facebook update yesterday: Winning? Trump wins Guinness Book of Records for Most Lies told by a President 4. […]
1. Joe and I had a really good weekend that included dancing at Dogtown, reading poetry at Hahn Garden and helping our grandsons learn to ride bikes. 2. I remember my first kiss and the boy that kissed me but don’t remember how I got to the house where it happened or how I got […]
1. Too much nature in poetry is like reading about the landscape in The Lord of the Rings when you just went to get back to the action. 2. To me the action is the everyday as it converges with the inner and outer life, and the big questions about immortality, mystery and how our […]
1. My son Josh and Emily’s marriage over the weekend was the Woodstock of weddings. 2. There was a flag procession, readings that made people cry, love professed, poetry, music, storytelling and more. A garland of marigolds from Emily’s flower farm was draped along the wedding platform that Josh built… Held at Josh’s woodfire pottery compound […]
1. Why is Labor Day for workers but no one works on Labor Day?” – My seven-year-old grandson Liam 2. I’m either going to a wedding or a hurricane this weekend. 3. Wear Your Love Like Heaven by Donovan and You Wear it Well by Rod Stewart are two of my favorite songs. 4. I […]
1. “Is it gonna rain?” 2. The picture above was taken at Floyd Yoga Jam, where we had some torrential downpours, but more sunshine than rain over the long Labor Day weekend. It’s actually a hacky sack that they’re waiting to see fall. 3. My grandsons were Super Hero campers at the Yoga Jam. And not only […]
