1. If you really knew me, you’d know that I’d never have a red car. 2. And that I only have a land line so I can call my cell phone when I can’t find it. 3. I’ve been drawn to the song “The Telephone Hour” from the musical Bye Bye Birdie ever since I […]
1. This is the stuff fairy tales are made of. 2. The days of eating garden corn over the butter dish are over. 3. My phone plant identifier app calls these overgrown plants ‘wild lettuce.’ 4. The sky is a blue canvas for the tallest sunflowers / A hummingbird whirs in search of bright colors […]
1. There were more or less three Grateful Dead parties for Jerry Garcia’s birthday over the weekend. There were also gully washes all over the county, so we only made it to one. Leonard Blush and the Camelcals (aka as John McBroom and friends) played some Dead tunes at Dogtown. 2. I found out, because […]
1. Yes! 2. The Floydfest night light shows with headliner acts were spectacular. 3. But I was mesmerized by the feet. 4. Speaking of feet. One of my favorite Floydfest pictures is of me and my sweet friend Sudha playing footsie. See HERE. 5. After events that I cover for the local paper, I like […]
1. I brake for psychedelic art. 2. I love my new bumper sticker. 3. Only two Grateful Dads showed up at the Buffalo Mountain Brewery on Sunday, but they were very entertaining and the Turner food truck fish tacos were great. 4. A country breakfast means fresh hen eggs and garden tomatoes. 5. Corn is […]
1. Nine months after Helene hit Marshall NC hard, my son’s Old Marshall Jail hotel is back open and Zadies restaurant is up and running. 2. But there are still so many signs of the floods destruction and the emotional toll it took changes people. 3. Joe and I, Josh’s brother and two nephews went […]
1. I played Musical Chairs at a lawn party recently. It came down to two of us and I was a runner-up. I felt like I was on American Idol. 2. I still like to name the fireworks. So many this year looked like scenes from James Webb telescope. More HERE. 3. While our porch […]
1. The latter or the ladder? 2. Something’s happening here. 3. I’m happy that my 17-year-old grandson is learning building skills. He’s very fit, capable and is easy going. 4. He got his start HERE. 5. I’ve been told that construction projects look worse before they look better. 5. Through the roof or Threw the […]
1. This is what I miss about my grandsons now that they are teenagers. A past flash back Oh Baby! post HERE. 2. It’s a June moon / suspended in the sky / waiting for a poet’s push / to swing it 3. Waiting for the Dough to Fall. 4. When someone who knows you are a […]
1. Standing near our town’s one stoplight during the No Kings protest, I was caught in some shots that were later posted on Facebook by friends. 2. It didn’t rain but the wind was so strong that the sign I held up felt like a kite and I worried about flying away. 3. I had […]
1. There’s a fine line between play and work when it comes to writing poetry. 2. It’s good to see yourself represented in a story. I felt represented when I first read the children’s book Fredrick by Leo Lionni to a group of preschoolers many years ago. Fredrick is a laid-back field mouse who seems […]
1. Listening to my friends Joel and Bob play Bowie’s ‘Major Tom to Ground Control’ at the Buffalo Mt. Brewery, I shouted out “Tommy can you hear me?” 2. They got my reference, which always thrills me because the kids who bag my groceries at Slaughters don’t get my vanity license plate reference to Let […]
