1. I love THIS paper cutting art that Sandy Kezzela posted last week, and I love the quote by the artist, who said, “Once a cut has been made, there’s no going back.” 2. Funny how flim flam, sham and scam are all related. 3. Buying a car without a roof rack is like buying […]
1. I’m a nerd who spends hours taking and cropping pictures of frost on the window. See some HERE. 2. My only practice these days is having no practice, which is the hardest practice and never ends up being about nothing. 3. I think it’s funny when I covet my grandson’s toys, like the above […]
1. “I just had my first shower of 2017 and lemme tell y’all…it’s the same damn water.” – Posted by my sons’ brother on Facebook on New Year’s Day 2. Most of life is imaginary: “Human beings have a habit of compulsive thinking that is so pervasive that we lose sight of the fact that […]
1. The photo above looks like we had a blurry, as well as Merry Christmas, but those are actually lit-up shoes that I got in our Yankee Swap, which someone else, who was also playing, promptly stole. Can you say Dorothy? 2. What good is a chair if it doesn’t rock, a shower if it isn’t […]
1. Some people are more worried about the imagined war on Christmas than they are about with a war with China or a merger with Russia. 2. Christmas Night Lights seen through a beer glass are HERE. 3. I’ve been doing a 13 list since the fall of 2005 and this is my 579th entry. […]
1. It’s surprising that we don’t live in a city, considering all the events available to us in this one stoplight town. After Winterfest and the Festival of Trees, we saw a local play with a Christmas theme, went to a Gingerbread Ball and then a German Christmas Cocktail Party. 2. The real reason that […]
1. Favorite line seen on Facebook this week: Feeling uncomfortable with all these Mondays we’ve let into the country. –Floyd author Neil Sagebiel 2. Trying to put life into written words is like trying to pin the tail on the donkey while blindfolded. And sometimes we break piñatas. 3. You cried wolf / Now you […]
1. Last week I wrote that, because of Facebook, it felt like I had 100 people in my house. Over the 16 Hands long weekend Studio Tour that was actually true. 2. I realized just how small our house is when, during the Saturday 16 Hands Tour, our two downstairs rooms-turned-galleries were as full as […]
1. “You’re always in a box, and you’re an escape artist if you do what I do – or if you’re a creative person, period. You build your box and then you escape from it. You build another one and you escape from it. That’s ongoing. And you may at some point escape enough boxes […]
1. “In memoir the heart is in the brain. It’s the Geiger counter you run over memory’s landscape looking for precious metals to light up. A psychological self-awareness and faith in the power of truth gives you the courage to reveal whatever you unearth, whether you come out looking vain or conniving or hateful or […]
1. On Wednesday, I pulled up the covers and took a sick day. 2. America, I don’t recognize you. 3. The election caused Canada’s immigration site to crash, the Dow to fall lower than it had after 9/11 and my jaw to drop. 4. “This is not just an election, this is an American Rorschach inkblot […]
1. At a birthday party over the weekend I had some beet pie. 2. I know a woman named Heather who changed her name to Winter. “Well you’ve got two seasons covered. You only need two more names,” I told her. 3. It’s too late for Woodstock / but not for that leopard-skin pillbox-hat / […]
