1. Best comment of the week on THIS post was: Holy Virginian Smoked Ham, Batman! SPRING! 2. Me to my 3 year old grandson Liam: The birds are singing like crazy. Liam: That’s why they love each other. 3. Joe and I both wore Hello My Name IS tags this weekend, but we wore them […]
1. I can easily ignore the phone ringing and wait for the caller to leave a message, but as soon as my iphone goes off, I don’t know why, but I jump and can’t pick it up soon enough. Luckily, hardly anyone calls me. 2. Reason to get up in the morning: to check and […]
1. I didn’t leave the neighborhood this weekend because my five-year old grandson Bryce and his 3-year old brother Liam slept over, but I still took in some art when I picked Bryce up at my neighbor Elisha’s house, where he was playing with her five-year old son. Elisha has a straw bale home that […]
1. Forty-one million IQ points. That’s what a paper published by the National Institutes of Health determined Americans have collectively forfeited as a result of exposure to lead, mercury, and organophosphate pesticides. “Our very great concern,” researchers wrote, “is that children worldwide are being exposed to unrecognized toxic chemicals that are silently eroding intelligence, disrupting […]
1. I saw my blog in a dream with a post titled The Zee Bra. 2. I think it’s fitting that the word poser is within the word imposter. 3. Check out how THIS artist folds a life-sized elephant out of a single massive sheet of paper. 4. I love Wendell Berry’s take on old […]
1. I call the above photo: I Hope This is the Last Picture of Snow That I Post This Year. 2. My 3-year-old grandson Liam is no longer afraid of our chickens. He doesn’t stand on a chair and yell at them when he feeds them like he used to. In fact, he gets up […]
1. Plastic surgery is to Hollywood what steroids is to sports. 2. At the Floyd Mardi Gras Ball on Saturday I ran into a friend who told me she loves reading my blog but never comments. I said ‘thank you” and then told her that my blog was like PBS. If supporters want to see […]
1. “What is a “Courageous Conversation?” Well, I suppose it’s good to go to the root of the word ‘courage’, which comes from the old Norman French ‘coeur’ meaning heart. I suppose a courageous conversation is a heart-felt one. And a heart-felt conversation is one that needs to happen.” – David Whyte, poet. 2. I […]
1. Overheard at our house after reading questions on Facebook about road conditions during last week’s snowstorm: “There are no roads to report road conditions from … only snow! 2. Two feet of snow fell in two days and had me singing this: Oh gee, Oh gee, It’s up to my knee, It’s up to […]
1. Some of the strangest vintage valentine cards that you’re likely to see are HERE. 2. Valentine cards for repressed British people HERE and awkward Valentine Day cards for your confusing modern relationships are HERE. 3. Have you ever, like me, questioned the accuracy of the past tense of dream, wrote or typed it and […]
1. I named one of my chickens Dolly just so I could sing “Hello Dolly,” when I go to the coop each morning to feed the flock. 2. Roosters brag about getting laid and hens brag about laying. Honestly, after they lay an egg they literally crow about it. 3. You’ve heard of Bed Bath […]
1. There were robots from France, light shows, an aerial performance by Pink, Taylor Swift swinging her head wildly at the piano, a little Beatlemania and a mass wedding of 34 (gay and straight) couples that followed Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ rap performance Same Love, but maybe my favorite Grammy moment of Sunday night was […]
