1. Last night I dreamt that Joe and I were at an auditorium event (something like an author’s reading) and at one point the performer came out in a Santa suit and did a wedding ceremony with a couple on stage and the whole audience. We were being married to prose and, of course, I […]
1. I was excited to watch the Golden Globes show on TV Sunday night, but I kept calling it the Boston Globes. 2. My friends are finally getting the hang of what I do and some even pose for me when we’re out and about and they know I’m going to blog about it. See […]
1. I got a new Van Gogh calendar in our Christmas Eve neighborhood Yankee Swap. I knew I needed a calendar and was determined not to get taken in by pretty wrapping and end up with something I couldn’t use, so I stole (part of the rules) from someone else for the first time. 2. […]
1. Me to Joe, at the movie theater, wearing 3D glasses to see The Hobbit: “You look like a bad ass.” He answers, “And you look like Jackie O.” 2. Poems tell more than they say. They convey, as if mutely, the condition of the mind that made them, and this is a large part […]
1. Recently seen headline, “The war on Christmas is over and we won.” 2. A bow tie is a boy’s version of a bow. 3. When I read that the word twerk was a combination of twitch and jerk, I was reminded that when my son Dylan was little he made up the word huggle, […]
1. According to my friend Jamie, if I blog about you, you can say “Hey, I’ve just been loose leaf noted.” 2. What do Elvis, Sheryl Crow and Porky Pig have in common? Click on THIS, THIS and THIS for the answer. 3. Speaking of blue, I learned about Slender Man and “What does the […]
1. You would think that the word window would have something to do with the wind, and you’d be right. Window comes from the Norse for “the wind’s eye.” See some windows of opportunity HERE. 2. Presents or gifts? The word present originally meant the same as the adjective present, “being there.” It was used […]
1. On at least one recent occasion, I left the house with a hen’s egg in my coat pocket that later broke. 2. It’s only a matter of time before I splash tea on the front of my latest white shirt, burn a second pot of rice on the stove, discover that my sweat pants […]
1. It’s interesting to me the way electric tools and equipment run are still measured in horsepower, especially after attending Biological Woodsmen Week events over the weekend, seeing restorative forestry horse logging first hand and even watching a horse powered treadmill log splitter cut wood for firewood. See it HERE. 2. When President Kennedy was […]
1. I recently had to get up in the middle of the night to write down this thought about how made-in-China products in the U.S. are like invasive species. 2. I read books slowly either because I don’t like them or I like them too much and don’t want them to end. 3. I think […]
1. Last week’s most posted photo among Floydian Facebookers, which caused one friend to respond “I should get to town more often,” is HERE. 2. Virginia Governor elect Terry McAuliffe says he’d veto any bill to allow uranium mining: “I don’t support uranium mining,” he said. “First and foremost as governor, my job is to […]
1. This weekend I went to a Quaker meeting, celebrated a friend’s 87th birthday, attended a draft horse plowing at a school farm and found out I’m an INTJ (introverted/intuitive/thinking/judging Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) personality. 2. I’m not so sure I like being an INTJ. The only writers listed in the group of nerdy scientists and […]
