1. My 5 year old grandson Liam thinks the song Mellow Yellow (his current favorite) comes from the Minons movie (where he first heard it), but I know it started with Donovan in the late ‘60s. 2. Liam’s brother Bryce thinks the Minions wrote Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys. Both boys refer to the […]
1. Does your heart chakra need more cowbell? -Posted by my friend Joel on Facebook 2. Every time I watch THIS video, I jump up to answer the phone. 3. Joe and I clean up pretty well. Scroll down HERE. 4. Joe recently officiated the wedding of a couple he introduced to each other. He started […]
1. I’ve crossed the bridge of song from the good old days to the older ones HERE. 2. As a day care teacher throughout the ‘70s, I used to help kids string macaroni into necklaces. Now they are using apps to do things like THIS. 3. We wore purple wrist bands at the Donna the […]
1. The Elephant in the Room: “No one sees the elephant in the room for good reason. The elephant is no more. Effective 2018, Barnum and Bailey have announced that their circus will be elephant-free. The lovable Babars will go the way of the eight-track tape. I’m not certain why this is bothersome. Three, four, […]
1. Best line of last week was by Morning Joe Scarborough who was describing Sarah Palin’s nonsensical endorsement of Donald Trump: “Was that more White Rabbit or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?” 2. Best Bucket List Find: An all blue city in Morocco. It was settled by Jewish refugees in 1930 who painted everything blue […]
1. Lying in bed last week with something like the flu, I noticed a perfect swordfish shape in the knotty pine logs in my bedroom that I hadn’t noticed in all the 25 years I’ve lived in our cabin. 2. It figures: Talking about being sick, in every email I typed FU by mistake, instead […]
1. Poetry is a condensed form of expression that doesn’t follow the rules of prose like a dream isn’t limited by reality. 2. While watching Yellow Submarine with 5-year-old grandson Liam, he says, “Paul looks like a girl.” 3. Liam to Hopa Joe: When you’re 100 you’ll probably be dead. Hopa: Can I still love […]
1. “It’s a bench. I feel like I’m in court! – Colleen to Joe, upon seeing that our neighbor’s swing chair overlooking our favorite mountain view was replaced with a bench. 2. The crocus circus has come and gone and now it’s time for the daffodils, which I have referred to in the past as […]
1. Favorite REM line and the story of my life: Oh no, I’ve said too much. Followed by: I haven’t said enough. 2. So I had a couple of curlers on the top of my head while getting ready to go out dancing when Joe came in and looked at me and I joked, “I’m […]
1. “They only bomb carpets so it’s cool.” – Seen on Facebook after the last Republican presidential debate. 2. I still remember the first time I heard Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. It was read out loud by my kindergarten teacher Mrs. Golden. I can viscerally recall how tense I was and scared for Peter, […]
1. Very cool! I was recently featured in a Life of a Poet interview at Poets United HERE. 2. As Bernie and Hillary supporters who kept going back and forth on who we’d support, Joe and I ended up canceling out each other’s votes in Tuesday’s primary election, but somehow one of us voting for Hillary […]
1. Driving to Roanoke on Thursday to pick up my grandson Liam at preschool, I passed a white statue of Mother Mary in someone’s yard and thought it was a snowman. 2. Later, I took a wrong turn and came upon a Stonehenge and had to explain to Liam what it was and why I […]
