1. “It used to be that artists never took credit for their own work. There was this thing literally called “the muse.” Every once it a while it comes to visit you and it’s not up to you. At some point in history we got rid of that idea and starting taking credit. Some people […]
1. Clinton’s Vice Presidential pick, Tim Kaine, has never lost a campaign; he has a son in the military and a history of working for civil rights and the poor; he stood up to the NRA, speaks fluent Spanish, has been to Floyd more than once and plays THIS instrument. 2. Seen recently on Facebook: […]
1. Over the weekend Joe and I went to a fun pre-Floydfest party hosted by the festival founders. It was like going to a bachelor party before the wedding (which, in this case, is scheduled for July 27 – 31). 2. A couple of weeks ago I posted about a billboard sign I saw while […]
1. The weekend was all about fireworks and flowers, and some fireworks are named after flowers and some flowers are named after fireworks. 2. There are lilies named Fire King and All Fired Up and a firework that I call Nana’s Zinnia. Dahlia Umbrella is another one. 3. I also watched my first rubber duck race. […]
1. Everyday at 3:55 the kids at Great Oaks are on the edge of the pool waiting to hear the whistle that lets them know the adult swim is over and they can jump in. Sometimes I’m the only one in the pool and I get out a few minutes before 4:00 so I can watch […]
1. When we were on the beach a couple of weeks ago, a young girl asked Joe if he was Jesus. Then, at Fandango this weekend (mini daylong Floydfest) Joe and I were lying on the grass close together after dancing to a rocking band when a young man came up to us and asked […]
1. Joe and I saw the sculpture above at the Baltimore Museum of Art. I mentioned it being a Rodin and then saw the exhibit label had listed an unknown artist as the creator. “What a rip off,” I said before I went around to the other side of the sculpture and saw another label […]
1. Today I ran over a submarine sandwich in the road and was glad it wasn’t a squirrel. 2. And then we sang THIS. 3. If Hillary wins the presidency and enlists Elizabeth Warren for VP, it will be sort of like Tina Fey and Amy doing the Weekend Update. 4. My new blog motto: […]
1. Still on my memoir reading kick, I picked two up at the library this week, written by an unlikely pair, both of whom I have seen up-close and in person: Kurt Vonnegut and Steven Tyler. 2. I’m a fan of science fiction and read most of Vonnegut’s best sellers when I was in my […]
1. Peony is the big bang of flower blooms. 2. Did you know that the Universe actually makes noise? When two black holes collided 1.3 billion years ago, THIS is the sound it made, very similar to a heartbeat. 3. I’m having second thoughts after just making an appointment with a doctor named Kwak. 4. I love graduations […]
1. Poetic Feet? It’s a real term that refers to the basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables, such as iambic, anapestic, trochaic and dadtylic. 2. I don’t know the academic language of poetry, like I don’t know how to maneuver manual settings on a camera, but that […]
1. How is it that what’s hot and what’s cool is the same thing? 2. I talk in rhyme whenever possible, which is why when my grandson turned eight on Saturday, I couldn’t help captioning all the birthday pictures I took: It’s Great to be Eight! 3. On seeing a herd of cows stampede off […]
