1. My friend Louise wrote this on Facebook: Damn. Thousands of birds falling out of the sky worldwide, Tampa airport shutting down for a week because the earth’s poles are shifting, politicians encouraging violence and then denying responsibility when some maniac takes them up on it…. that’s it, I’ve had enough for one day. It’s […]
1. When it comes to New Year’s I’ve been a “bah humbug” this year. Only this line, posted by my brother on Facebook, gave me some relief: Every new year people make resolutions to change aspects of themselves they believe are negative. A majority of people revert back to how they were before and feel […]
1. Sign put on my blog over Christmas: I Brake for Christmas cookies and Narnia in 3D. 2. The Roanoke Times called the Christmas snow that just kept falling “The little snow that could.” 3. One of the benefits of having read all of the Hobbit and Narnia books aloud to your young sons is […]
1. Somehow the words NATAL and FATAL seem like the rhyming bookends of life. 2. According to a Facebook ap, the top ten words I use on the site include Moon and Morning, Sometimes, Tea, Joe, Light and Water. 3. Speaking of fatal, half the pens in our house are leaking out ink, which makes […]
1. In the same way I know when the food I’m cooking is done (or burned) by the way it smells I know when the woodstove’s gone out when I get cold. 2. I have psychic connection with my 4 minute boiled eggs in the morning. I never time them but always know when they’re […]
1. You know you’re in Floyd when your husband gets thanked for connecting someone to a day’s work with a bag of homegrown garlic and I get thanked for writing a story about a local dancer with a hula hoop she made. 2. A silver-lining to the bad economy? Interestingly, during the worst of the […]
1. Last week during Thanksgiving-time every time I tried to type google my hands slipped and it came out gobble. 2. Driving to my brother’s house for Thanksgiving dinner we had to brake for a flock of turkeys crossing the street. 3. When my camera battery is low and blinks I can usually get about […]
1. You know that guy in the movie American Beauty who filmed the plastic bag blowing in the wind? I think he got the idea from me. See HERE. 2. I wish people were as upset by the corruption of our political voting system as they were about Bristol Palin winning undeserved votes on Dancing with […]
1. Best find on Facebook this week: street art made with plastic bags inflated by hot air rising from subway steam grates HERE. 2. My Asheville Potter Son Josh’s recent Facebook comment read: Studio Stroll. So I sent him THIS link. 3. Cropping pictures in Adobe photo shop is a lot like hemming pants. 4. […]
1. A light bulb is a moon wannabe and lightening is light’s wildlife (or should I say “wildlight”). 2. Best commentary title on the midterm election seen somewhere online this week: Obama’s 2010 “Shellacking” is Like Bush’s 2006 “Thumping.” 3. Silent and listen are the same word with the letters moved around. 4. I didn’t […]
1. Nature’s facelift: a smile 2. Not only do we look better when we smile, we feel better too. Research has shown that smiling relieves stress and triggers hormones in the brain that promote feelings of well-being. 3. Last Thursday after pointing out that a road near me is named Shooting Creek in reference to […]
1. I was typing, my fingers slipped, and a smiley face came up on the screen. I don’t know how to make that happen again, do you? 2. Funny grafffitti HERE. 3. I’ve been reading Tabor’s One Day at Time blog for several years but only now looked up the word “tabor” and discovered it […]
