1. “Wait, Rising Sun is not the same as Winter Sun?” -Floyd homeboy Josh Copus 2. Last night I dreamt that Neil Young was my boyfriend. 3. Lately, I’ve been reading memoirs of the ’60s rock stars of my generation the way my veteran father read WWII books when he was my age. Here’s an […]
1. No matter what masquerade costume I put on, there’s always one or two people who don’t bat an eye, walk right up to me and say, “Hi Colleen.” 2. Then – because of the pink wig – there are some I’ve known for years that didn’t even recognize me when I took off my […]
1. Sometimes when my grandsons want me to play I tell them I’m tired but if they come give me a big hug it might give me energy to play, and it works! 2. I’ve been tired a lot so I don’t think I can handle being retired. 3. The stink bugs are back. When […]
1. I’m reading Patti’s Smith’s new memoir M Train. I was hooked from the very first line: It’s so hard to write about nothing. 2. After being snowed in for three days, by Sunday I was ready to see the world, and by that I mean more than the mailbox. See my Snowscape Escapes HERE. […]
1. I recently dreamt that I had a tick stuck on the back of my neck. I woke up wondering if a dream tick can be infected with Lyme. 2. While reading blogs last week, I came across the word “empyreal,” which means the highest part of heaven, but which I think makes a good […]
1. As a writer, I’m like a crossword puzzle solver who can finish a People Magazine puzzle but never The New York Times. 2. I’m never going to own a gun or cut my hair short. 3. Last week my son Josh wrote from Laos: THIS bamboo bridge only exists for half the year. It […]
1. You’d never know I got bit by a dog on the thigh/butt just a couple days before and that I was dancing (my ass off) on ibuprofen. – Read more from This is How Good the New Year Sounds HERE. 2. And when you’re bit in the ass / you have to ask ‘what […]
1. While talking to my Asheville Potter son Josh in China via Facebook audio on Christmas, he said people keep asking him if he’s eating a lot of Chinese food. “Yeah, but here, they just call it food.” 2. It was the first time Josh hasn’t been home for Christmas, the first Christmas full moon […]
1. You know that scene from A Christmas Carol when Scrooge wakes up with a change of heart after having been visited by the ghosts throughout the night? It’s Christmas morning and he goes to the window to shout down to a little boy and ask what day it is and whether the prize turkey […]
1. Leave it to a poet to have his last words upon leaving this world be: “My ride showed up.” John Trudell February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2-15 2. I spent a lot of time listening to the spoken word poetry of Santee Sioux Poet and activist, John Trudell while working in my friend’s […]
1. It’s fitting and ironic that a sign in Ford’s Theatre where Abraham Lincoln was shot says: Guns are prohibited here. 2. After seeing the production of A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre while in D.C. this weekend, I remembered THIS poem I wrote in 2002, just before the U.S. invaded Iraq, which begins: I […]
1. Giving and forgiving are better than taking and mistaking. 2. Recently seen Facebook post: Having discovered Siri, I asked “her,” Is there a god?” Siri replied, “My policy is the separation of spirit and silicon.” 3. Dancing is my version of going to the gym and smiling about it. 4. A couple of years […]
