1. October is the red carpet celebrity of autumn. 2. My friend Gene posted on Facebook about hearing James Taylor sing at Fenway Park. He wrote, “JT singing the national anthem at the World Series = awesome.” His daughter responded, “JT= Justin Timberlake.” 3. Funny Facebook post from my niece Liza about her 3 year […]
1. And so it begins: the wigs and witches, the glitter and gore. 2. Best line seen on Facebook last week on the end of the government shut-down, posted by my Facebook friend Rick: I don’t belong to any political party, but it strikes me that something is wrong when a group that claims to […]
1. It’s so right that the word zing is part of amazing. 2. I’m glad I live in a place where smoke comes out of chimneys. 3. That comment and the picture above got 40 likes on Facebook. 4. As a girl, I always held out hope that I would hear the nightingale’s song in […]
1. Do words have a collective noun – like a flock of birds or a school or whales? If not, I’d like to propose “a conjur of words.” 2. Best line seen on Facebook this week after a Floyd friend posted that he thought something got stolen from his unlocked car: Remember when we had […]
1. On the last Saturday Night Live, Seth Meyers gave his take on Repubican Senator Ted Cruz’s 21-hour talk-a-thon last week protesting the Affordable Care Act: “Cause you know the old saying, if you can’t beat them, kick the ball into the woods.” 2. “When the Giants lost, they didn’t shut down the NFL!” […]
1. My chickens brag loudly when they lay eggs, and so do I when I collect them. “Good girls! Good girls! Good girls! I shout for each one. 2. Trying to get good pictures of the hens is like photographing babies. They don’t answer to ‘say cheese,’ but crazy antics and weird sounds will usually […]
1. New word learned at a recent weekend at a party: Booyah! It’s right up there with Boomshakalaka! 2. Sheryl Crow on military action in Syria: like throwing a rock in a beehive. 3. Line seen on Facebook: It’s always good to keep an open mind, but not so much that your brains fall out. […]
1. How come so many words that mean wasting time sound like so much fun, like piddle, diddle, dawdle, dilly dally and lollygag? 2. We may not have to lock our doors in the country but we do have to shut them for fear of the bears getting in. 3. I’ll never get over the […]
1. An umbrella is called a brolly in England. 2. I call THIS “the airplane pose,” and I do it all the time with my 2 1/2 year old grandson Liam, but at the Floyd YogaJam I attended over the weekend, it was billed as Jedi Training. 3. One of the classes I sat […]
1. The best compliment I received this week was when Joe and I drove down the mountain to Stuart to buy three new hens. I remarked to the poultry farmer – who raises everything from chicks to peacocks – that one of his crested ducks looked like Phyllis Diller. “I didn’t think you were old […]
1. Favorite summer activity: taking picture of butterflies in my yard and eating the berry pie that Joe carried through airports and on planes for me, all the way from Seattle. 2. While in Seattle, teaching a teen meditation retreat, he saw THIS amazing art show of a Nashville artist who makes elaborate art out […]
1. I was recently thinking how everything in my life comes down to pace and that the best way to pace myself is to give myself space between activities. Now I’m wondering if space is the mutant plural of pace, like slow is to low and slight is to light, with more pace equaling more […]
