1. It must be my Irish DNA that makes me love tea over coffee and dark beer over wine. 2. My favorite St. Patrick’s Day parade float was the shark mobile, but the one with the bubble machine was a close second. There was even a Ferret club of marchers and the Liam and Bryce […]
1. Last night Joe called me Frank Sinatra. When I asked what he meant by that he said, “You like to do things your way.” 2. I call taking a bath “a dunk,” the way he calls playing golf “taking a walk,” which I guess in both cases translates to, “This won’t take long. You […]
1. Speaking with a friend on Monday, he asked, “What have you been up to?” I went blank for a few seconds and then blurted out, “Oh, just killing possums and playing with grandkids,” to which he replied, “At least you’re not playing with possums and killing grandkids.” 2. Sometimes life seems like a series […]
1. I honestly didn’t get the joke when Academy Award host Neil Patrick Harris went on stage in his underwear, until I read the next day that it was a reference to Birdman, the movie that won best picture this year and opened with a scene of Michael Keaton in his underwear. 2. This weekend […]
1. The Post in Which I Explain to Six-year-old Bryce What Cupid’s Arrow is and how we spent our Valentine’s Day HERE. 2. I remember when there used to be a Barbie doll in a red dress trapped in a birdcage that was hanging at Oddfella’s Cantina. 3. While dancing myself into a trance at […]
1. The finches are at the feeders sunning their feathered coats that have not turned yellow yet. 2. I can’t walk past a stick without sizing up it up and resisting the urge to pick it up for woodstove kindling. 3. I took THIS shot by sticking my camera out the open window of my […]
1. I made up a new word after a friend suggested that serious people were probably trying to be sincere: sinserious. 2. Combining a photo and poetry in a post: Phoetry 3. Meditating is a lot like how you view computer generated magic art, except you do it with your eyes closed. Not unlike how […]
1. My four-year-old grandson Liam, coming home from a walk with me: “Can I take off my shoes cause I’m having a dream.” Me: “A daydream?” Liam: “No, a Mine Craft dream.” 2. I’m still shocked that savvy has two v’s in it and that rendezvous has a z. 3. “Non-violence means avoiding not only […]
1. I think it’s interesting that the word bankrupt has bank right in it, and rupt, which makes me think of a rupture, as in “break the bank.” 2. I was close: The word bankruptcy is derived from Italian banca rotta, meaning “broken bench,” which may stem from a custom of breaking a money changer’s […]
1. When in a funk, should a writer wait for inspiration or write about the size, shape and color of the writer’s block? 2. The best a poet can hope for is to speak broken poetry because poetry is a pre-verbal language. 3. My newspaper writing: On the front page today, in the woodpile tomorrow. […]
1. Somebody posted an article on Facebook last week about how hoppy beers are ruining the craft beer reputation. As someone that likes IPA, I commented “the hoppier the beer the happier I am.” 2. And not being able to leave well enough alone, I added: “The more bitter the better.” 3. We get PBS […]
1. When my Asheville Potter son Josh called on Christmas Eve day, I asked him when he’d arrive in Floyd to celebrate. “I’m leaving soon. I just have a few more things to wrap up,” he told me. “Oh, you mean like literally, as in wrapping presents?” I asked 2. Funny how the word mustache […]
