1. Comments and eggs. Comments and eggs. I like to count them every day. 2. Shadows are like brushes filled with black paint. My 4th of July Shadow Shot is HERE. 3. My kitchen looked like a murder scene after I baked my annual blueberry pie. When I cut into it, the juice dripped down the […]
1. Some people do yoga and others meditate. My practice is composing weekly 13 Thursdays. Sometimes I feel like a minister who writes and delivers a sermon each week. 2. Write Up My Alley, Honk if you Play 13 Thursday, 13 Lines Not for Fishing, The 13 Score, 13 Degrees of Spring Fever, The 13 […]
1. I had a screw loose while on a dinner date Saturday night, meaning that a literal screw came loose and fell out of my glasses. 2. Reading at the pool: “We are looking not for perfection in our partner but for a mutual exploration of imperfections.” –From Three Marriages by David Whyte 3. Only […]
1. Wedge, hedge and ledge all have an edge in them. 2. The wood thrush is my Hans Christian Anderson’s Nightingale in shining armour (and that misspelling of armor was a Freudian slip that I chose to keep). 3. I call the photo above of my first wood thrush photo capture “It’s So Nice to […]
1. Does a Finch get its name because it’s a little more than an inch in size? 2. I’m a minimalist at heart. As a writer, I like to practice the conservation of language, to distill thoughts down into a potency of meaning. On the other hand, maybe I write mostly short poems because I’m […]
1. I just realized that the word PROP could be spelled like “PR-OP,” meaning a PR (public relations) -Op. 2. I was thinking that the song The Parting Glass, sung at Floyd’s 2014 high school graduation should have been called The Parting Class. But glass works too, as in “here’s to you.” 3. My screen […]
1. Nikki Giovanni named her collection of love poems “Bicycles” because “love requires trust and balance.” 2. For me, living on the edge is not buying back-up eggs and trusting that the hens will lay at least four a day and that they’ll be enough for breakfast for Joe and I. 3. I have to […]
1. I have blisters on my fingers, not because someone handed me a cheeseburger, but because I just turned over soil for three rows of corn and beans and weeded a row of potatoes. 2. Sometimes I put my ear towards the moon and try to hear the ocean. 3. For me, a simple pen is […]
1. Sparrows are the chipmunks of birds. They’re of the same stripe. 2. It’s like gluing macaroni to a piece of cardboard and painting it gold. ~ Tom Waitts on songwriting 3. Looking at field guide of birds with my just-turned-six year old grandson Bryce, I read the words “Eastern Screech Owl,” and he said, […]
1. A recent status update seen on Facebook: I just killed a spider with a copy of Charlotte’s Web. 2. Speaking of irony, check out this croc with a croc in its mouth and other ironic moments caught on camera HERE. 3. My mind is a hot air balloon / I’m trying to launch / […]
1. I made THIS clip for Joe who couldn’t go with me to hear The Kind for their first appearance at Dogtown Roadhouse Saturday night. I really wanted to video tape them doing Tennessee Jed, which I sometimes mistakenly call Tennessee Ed or Ted, but I was too busy dancing to it. 2. Speaking of […]
1. “On Walden Pond” is not a movie starring the Fondas, nor is it a book by Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau; that was Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1984), which was reprinted in the ’60s as, simply, Walden. 2. It’s not an easy read. When Joe and I were on our mini-vacation at the […]
