1. Playing zombies today with my grandsons Liam and Bryce, 5 year-old Bryce says: “This is a zombie reading a newspaper with no pants on. Throw a lawnmower at it! 2. I told Bryce that Row You’re Boat was his favorite song that I sang to him when he was a baby. When I told […]
1. At Floydfest 12, we had three good weather days and one day of steady rain that made a lot of mud. The mud brought up stories of Woodstock and the question of whether today’s music festivals compare to that iconic festival. “If Woodstock was a president, it would be JFK,” I heard myself say […]
1. A first: I just conducted an interview for a Floyd Press story via Facebook messaging. Not only that, the Floyd person I was interviewing was answering my questions from a brewery in Charlotte NC! 2. A college textbook editor recently bought THIS photo after finding it here at loose leaf. 3. Favorite Facebook post […]
1. When the Japanese mend broken objects, they fill the damaged parts with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. See an example HERE. 2. I love that Ethan Estess spent four months building sculptures using only San Francisco’s garbage. My favorite was a piece […]
1. We talk about our chickens almost as much as we talk about our grandkids, which is why I found THIS rant about how chickens are a gateway livestock very funny. 2. Ever since we lost two chickens to a vagrant dog last week, I check the remaining ones every time they make a peep or […]
1. I call today’s photo A Puddle of Muddle and Mud. 2. When we were kids we would ask each other ‘would you rather be deaf or blind?’ These days the question might be ‘would you rather be flooded or be in drought?’ 3. I think we can start calling “Climate Change” “Climate Changed.” “By […]
1. For the last few days all I’ve been doing is eating, napping and taking pictures of the moon while on vacation at Bethany Beach, where we’ve been making pilgrimages by bicycle to the moon over the ocean every night. 2. It’s appropriate that I’m at a Mooney reunion here (Joe’s mom’s clan) at the […]
1. After my grandsons’ recent sleepover I was left with a bruised rib from wrestling, a few half eaten apples in odd places around the house and bunch of broken water balloons in the yard. 2. The term “Wild Animal Park,” which someone I know spoke of recently, is an oxymoron. 3. I recently […]
1. Written on an old scrap that I just dug out from a pile of papers: You don’t have to inject patience, just withdraw the irritation. The patience is there naturally. 2. Some things I don’t have much patience for, including when my fourth grade flip flopped on a picture taking day: HERE. 3. A […]
1. This week, I learned all kinds of things, like what vegetables hold more pesticide residue than others, the discovery of a species of giant bug that scientists had thought was extinct, a new literary magazine to consider submitting poetry to, and that the man and woman who did the voices of Mickey Mouse and […]
1. I think THIS home movie of my grandsons Bryce and Liam is a good ad for the arts, drawing and dancing, what could be more fun? 2. I love to dance and when I go out dancing I like to dance next to people who also love to dance because it raises my game, […]
1. Have I mentioned that I have a stalker? He’s someone from high school that I didn’t know existed back then. His obsession with me (and one of my girlfriends) is mostly inactive now, although on my birthday last week a family member reported that someone they know saw him and he knew it was […]
