1. My neighborhood is an October vacation destination and my porch is like the deck of a ship sailing through a sea of fall foliage. 2. THIS video chokes me up. 3. THIS one makes me smile. 4. You can see from the photo of my 2 year old grandson Bryce (left) playing a leaf […]
1. Friends were surprised last week that I was actually answering my phone and not letting the answering machine pick up as I usually do. I had good reason. My grandson Liam was about to be born. 2. Liam was born the day after (by 42 minutes) my brother Danny’s birthday (Dan died in 2001) […]
1. I think I’ve got a little vampire in me because I really like to kiss Joe on the neck, right on the carotid artery, the place where you check for a pulse when you’re giving CPR. 2. When Joe and I first got together in 1987 I had a hard time saying “I love […]
1. Monarch Butterflies Make a Pit Stop on their way to Mexico: I had been waiting all month for a sighting of more than one or two fleeting monarchs. It finally happened on a country road when I pulled over to take a picture of a favorite old barn and noticed dozens of monarchs feasting […]
1. Lying on the hammock with my husband Joe, he says to me, “Can you get that “no see um” on my arm?” I answer, “How can I get him when I can’t even see him.” 2. The day after filling a couple of shopping bags and a hiking pack full of apples, I’ve been […]
1. Joe and I just saw the movie Inception, which made me remember this favorite quote: “Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say anymore about life?” Havelock Ellis 2. We’ve been picking turnip greens from under our new Redbud tree in our yard. I guess there were seeds in the compost […]
1. It’s a crock that one of my crocs turned blue overnight (which I recently announced with this photo on Facebook). But it’s not a crock that one of my crocs shrunk a whole size overnight and didn’t fit anymore. 2. I think it’s fitting that crocks are for cooking and that you can cook […]
1. At the Friday night Jamboree in downtown Floyd, I met a woman name Beverly who moved here from Beverly Hills, bought some land and named it Beverly’s Hills. She was selling produce off the back of her Beverly’s Hills truck. 2. It was a two wristband weekend. On my left wrist I had my […]
1. My friend Will, the local poet who came up with the term “alter-native” to describe Floyd’s alternative community, refers to himself politically as a Dharmacrat. 2. “Republicans and Democrats are like Fords and Chevys. Like the Yankees and the Red Sox, they have an almost irrational need to take sides,” I said. 3. Said […]
1. On vacation with my husband on Chincoteague Island, I sat on a surfboard bench in the sand watching two women play scrabble while I waited for an order of crab cakes and French fries at a beach shack. After we ate, no waiters came to take our plates away or usher out, so we […]
1. I bought an aromatherapy candle and it stinks, which in this case means it has no smell and is useless for what I had in mind. 2. I wish I could wake up and see my life with new eyes every morning in the same way I do when I come home after being […]
1. Its all part of the job: These days I’ve been collecting knock knock jokes for a man with disabilities that I support and playing Uno card games with a young woman who I provide support services to. 2. HERE’s a site that gives knock knock jokes to go with first names. 3. I was […]
