1. Letting go of the gas pump perfectly so you end on a round number, typing your username and password at the speed of light, when batteries are included, when you sneeze and someone says ‘bless you,’ anything on tap. These are some of the 1000 Awesome Things listed in Neil Pasricha’s book of the […]
1. Seen on Facebook: One day you’ll just be a memory to someone. Do your best to be a good one. 2. “You can’t win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, ‘Why am I not winning this contest as well?’ It’s random. So truthfully, again, do I wish it weren’t […]
1. I like that the words diverse and universe have the word verse right in them, calling to mind a sense of poetry. 2. And I’ll never get over that the word good has god right in it. 3. Since poetry is a per-verbal language, the most a poet can hope for is to speak […]
1. “Herding the cows” and “hurting the cows” sounds the same but means something completely different. 2. Another miscommunication came when I recently said to someone, “I’m overeating” and they heard, “I’m over eating,” as in “I’m so done with that.” 3. Floydfest, our town’s blow-out music festival, becomes a lifestyle every July for four […]
1. I took this picture of the new Floydfest Yurt village when I was at the site on Sunday getting some last minute photos of Floydfest ambiance creators for a story I was writing for the local paper. 2. Who better to describe Floydfest, starting today and running through Sunday, than the founders, Kris Hodges […]
1. I experienced brain freeze for the first time recently when the power went out and I had to wash my hair with cold well water. 2. Best review of the book Fifty Shades of Gray, posted by a Facebook friend: I just read a few pages and I gotta say that I just don’t […]
1. Every time I watch the PBS Newshour I feel like messing up Margaret Warner’s hair-do. 2. Raining poems? It doesn’t happen every day. Look HERE. 3. What’s the difference between a slurpie and a slushie? 4. I think the makers of word processing software should create a poet’s program option in which the first […]
1. What are you going to do with your free leap second? 2. On June 30, it was reported that we all received a free second, known as a leap second, a one-second adjustment that is sometimes applied to Coordinated Universal Time in order to keep its time of day close to mean solar time. […]
1. We scored a lot of grandparent points with our grandsons this weekend when they came for an overnight and discovered our new chicken coop-full of hens. 2. The fresh blueberries ready for pickin’ in the garden also didn’t hurt. 3. Four-year-old Bryce has an ear for rhyme. He picked out our one speckled hen, […]
1. Getting a teeth cleaning is like changing the oil of car and like oil changes, it gives our teeth more mileage. 2. These days instead of singing Joni Mitchell’s, “you turn me on I’m a radio,” to my husband Joe, I joke “you crack me up, I’m a radio.” 3. HERE is a story […]
1. If pictures are picture perfect, then poetry is the warts and all truth. 2. “Dance is poetry of the foot,” said John Dryden. It’s proven HERE. 3. Read a fascinating account of how New York author Dorothy Parker’s ashes came to rest at the NAACP in Baltimore HERE. 4. Parker’s self-composed epitaph: “Excuse my […]
1. Let your faith be bigger than your fear. ~ The quote my sister posted on Facebook after receiving a serious health diagnosis. 2. The quote my niece Rosie has on her checks: I’d rather be toasting marshmallows. 3. Both my sons would have been named Rosie Ellen if they had been girls. Years later […]
