1. I told my grandsons that being afraid can be a good thing, a signal to pay attention to something that could be dangerous. Then Liam (6) told me that the characters in a movie that are too brave are usually also dumb. So, we talked about the difference between being brave and being cocky. […]
1. Someone at the mushroom cultivation workshop I covered this weekend asked one of the workshop leaders to identify a “brown mushroom.” “That’s like trying to identify a person in a tie dye at a Grateful Dead concert,” I said to my neighbor. 2. I woke up with a poem titled “Joe snored last night.” […]
1. “To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.”- Emily Dickinson. 2. The above is the Victorian way to say what Irish pool player Danny McGoorty said this way: “I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.” 3. Joe recently said ‘Hasta la vista’ […]
1. “He introduced a few new songs. Before playing “My Baby Loves Me,” telling us how the muse had woke him too early, and he didn’t want to get up. “If you don’t take it, I’ll give it to Arlo,” the muse said, and so he got up and wrote a new song. – More from […]
1. I once had a bumper sticker that said ‘Why be normal?’ and I hung it on my car upside down. 2. Does “The Luck of the Irish” cancel out “Murphy’s Law” (if something can go wrong it will), or is it the other way around? 3. “Do you ever think how the grass feels […]
1. We don’t just have family game day around here. We have “make your own game play day.” 2. The name of this game, made by our 8-year-old grandson Bryce, is Banker Tanker. Watch us play HERE. 3. This week I held my friend Amy’s 4 month-old-baby Pearl while Amy was checking out groceries at […]
1. So last week I posted ‘It’s my bag or is it my baggage?’ and my friend Rick answered, “Depends on if you’re James Brown.” 2. That’s my friend Miriam pictured above at the 8th annual Floyd Mardi Gras. The picture below of Joe and me is titled “Twin Souls?’ 3. Removing our environmental protections: […]
1. The only thing in our private mineral pool at Berkley Springs Resort this weekend was an orchid and a pitcher of drinking water. More HERE. 2. We ate oysters and sang Octopus’s garden at a club full of couches and took a hot soak in a Roman Bath. We stood on sand in an open […]
1. “Be the Elizabeth Warren you want to see in the world.” – my friend Kanta Bosniak 2. I’m not good with writer’s prompts like I’m not good at dance classes. I can’t follow movements or write on cue. I’m best left alone to do what I do. 3. I got a “conga rats” comment […]
1. God has a Facebook page. Search “The Good Lord Above.” 2. “We live in cities that throw up skyscrapers and shopping centers and strike big real estate deals but they abandon a part of themselves to marginal settlements on the periphery. The result of this situation is that great sections of the population are […]
1. The above photo reminds me of a poem I wrote in the early ‘90s: Full moon temptation / at the traffic light / the red light says, “Stop” / but the moonlight says,“Come”/ awakening my natural signals 2. Last night I dreamt that Kelly Ann Conway framed me in a car accident by reversing […]
1. I got a massage on Monday. It included a head and face massage with oil. When it was over, I glanced in the mirror and, looking Phyllis Diller, heard myself say, “Did I just get a massage or a new hairdo!” 2. Maybe I looked like Tina Turner. 3. Channeling REM: That’s me in […]
