1. Tea actually is my cup of tea 2. I think it’s fitting that “tea” and “poetry” rhyme. 3. Poets rhyme sugar / with teacup and saucer / They alliterate morning / with mug. 4. When someone in your house gets a cold and the contagion is all around you and you’re already feeling it […]
1. After a two-day visit to see a doctor at UVA hospital in Charlottsville, and after doing a poetry reading in Blacksburg on Sunday, I stayed in my bathrobe till 2:00 on Monday, reading and blogging, while books, bags and clothes were strewn all over my bedroom. 2. In Charlottsville, Joe and I listened to […]
1. Santa didn’t come to Winterfest this year, but my friend Amy’s baby Pearl was there in her Santa suit. I wouldn’t fit on her lap to tell my Christmas wishes, but I’d let her sit on mine, anytime. 2. If Pearl is a Santa’s helper then the picture below is of her in the workshop. […]
1. I wonder if our Floyd Christmas Parade T-Rex is related to THIS one? 2. I couldn’t get enough of T-Rex, so I followed him/her around, getting more shots than any other parade character or scene (400 shots but only 33 submitted to the paper). I watched it put a kid’s head in its mouth. […]
1. “Later today you are going to do something, something you don’t know about yet. Yet somehow, it’s already happened. Somehow, it’s already affected you…” So begins an article about the work of one of the most respected, senior and widely published professors of psychology, Daryl Bem of Cornell, who has just published an article […]
1. I’ve gotten to the point where I think believing that psychics are contacting my lost loved ones is like believing that wrinkle creams work. 2. But then there is THIS. 3. My seven-year-old grandson Liam: I know how to spell Oh. “O.” 4. The Youngbloods was one of the bands that epitomized the ‘60s […]
1. We don’t have any political ads in our yard because no one would see them. But we do have a crying baby mask in our kitchen with a caption that reads ‘I want a new president!’ See HERE. 2. Cult happens when culture goes wrong. 3. ‘As far as I can recall, men knelt […]
1. For those who didn’t know: When I went to the Pine Tavern Halloween Costume Party after being at the one at Dogtown Roadhouse, I joked to people there that there were two people at Dogtown dressed up like Tim Kaine and Ralph Northam and that they did a great job pulling it off. 2. […]
1. My grandson Liam (7) set up his own business when we recently visited his Uncle Josh’s Mobile Brick Factory in NC. He sold broken pieces of bricks for either a dollar or a bottle cap to throw into the nearby French Broad River. “Why would I want to buy one and then throw it […]
1. Last week I saw a rainbow and took it personal. In a good way. 2. Over the weekend, Joe and I took our grandsons, Bryce and Liam, to Marshall NC (outside Asheville) to visit The Brick Factory, a mobile public art project that was created by my potter son Josh and is currently taking place at […]
1. Poetry lives outside the confines of academic convention or techno-logic mass-production. It’s not house-broken. 2. I recently did one better than William Stafford. He encouraged his students to write a poem a day, and when they thought it would be too much work, he suggested that they “lower their standards.” Saturday night, I decided […]
1. Seen somewhere on Facebook- Halloween costume idea: Quinton Tarantina Turner 2. Sesame Street is to kids what Saturday Night Live is to grownups, and they both are iconic shows that have lasted for more than 40 years. 3. Eating at my favorite restaurant on the chef’s day off is like seeing Graham Nash without […]
