1. Every time something goes wrong with my computer (which has happened a lot these days), I think it’s the Russians. 2. Quote seen on Facebook: Don’t trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar. 3. When one door closes another opens HERE. 4. Sometimes I get my blog categories “poetics” and “politics” mixed […]
1. Today I stopped to smell the roses … in the English countryside. 2. I mistakenly thought I saw a child driving a car (because the driver’s seat is where the passenger seat is in the U.S.). Everywhere I went there were ripe blackberries to pick and the scent of farms. I passed streets with […]
1. Joe had his own bucket list moment when he jumped from a rock into the Mediterranean Sea at a beach cove we stumbled upon while biking. 2. After staying two nights in Monterosso and a night with our friends Rick and Donna in Santa Maria, we headed to Bonasolla, a small beach town that borders the […]
__ From my understanding, The Chalice (Calice) is a group of small communities near Santa Maria, Italy, set like a bowl within the surrounding mountains. This is one of the first sights we saw when we arrived via train from the Cinque Terra to visit our friends Rick and Donna, 16 Hands cofounders/studio potters who […]
1. Ruckus or Rumpus? 2. “Let the rumpus start” kept going through my head when the family arrived to FloydfestWILD on Saturday… Some sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks. And some swung from vines … I mean swing sets … -More from Where the Wild Things are @ FloydfestWILD HERE. […]
1. “I can make anything” HERE. 2. Sometimes I repost parts of old entries, the way I wear the same outfits more than once. 3. After sitting in the archive closet for a few years, old posts seem almost new. 4. The entertainment industry seems so hard-up for material these days that all they seem to […]
1. This is Not a Wall 2. Climbing the Wall Here. 3. The plan was for Joe and I to spend the weekend visiting my Asheville Potter Son Josh and his fiancé Emily and to help them get “The Land” ready for their wedding in September. The Land is in Marshall, 20 minutes outside of Asheville, […]
1. Flower, Universe or Kramer? 2. My 10-year-old grandson Bryce has his own Youtube channel and is a talent in the making. Check it out HERE. 3. The birds are like children / that wake me too early / and I’m a neglectful parent/ who closes all the windows… -More from They Wake the Neighborhood […]
1. Last week I wrote, ‘What a life I lead. One day I played Scrabble with a friend, the next I swam at the pool, and the next I got an acupuncture treatment. Even when I go to work, it’s to cover a concert.’ 2. But this week my favorite cup broke, the birds stripped […]
1. What a life I lead. One day I played Scrabble with a friend, the next I swam at the pool, and the next I got an acupuncture treatment. Even when I go to work, it’s to cover a concert. See HERE. 2. If we can be discombobulated, can we be combobulated? 3. Bob or […]
1. Made in the Shade etymology: Possibly from a children’s rhyme: “ice-cold lemonade, made in the shade, stirred with a spade, by an old maid.” 2. My friend Fred wrote a letter-to-the-editor directed to our Trump- supportive Congressman about the loss of environmental protections under Trump. The night after reading the letter I dreamt that […]
1. Funny how a hit can be something hugely popular or a murder. 2. And a box can be a four-sided container or a hit. 3. Are poems like eggs? / Do I only have so many? / Am I born with all the poems / I’ll ever write inside me? / While new ideas […]
