1. These days our knights on white horses are the local farmers on tractor plows coming to plow us out. 2. In light of the Supreme Court’s recent vote not to limit corporate campaign spending, I think THESE new robes are well suited. 3. I recently became interested in the poetry of Haitian […]
1. Ipod and Ipad inventors are running out of vowels for naming their future inventions. Somehow Ipud, Ipid, and Iped don’t ring a bell. 2. I can’t help wondering if Apple co-founder and Ipad inventor Steve Jobs’s productivity has anything to do with his last name (and the fact that it’s plural). 3. Jobs, a […]
1. Joe, leaves the house, kisses Colleen and says: “See you later, sweet pea.” Colleen kisses Joe back and answers: “If I’m a pea, then you’re a pie, as in sweetie pie.” 2. My poem “After the Golden Globes and in honor of Valentine Day” has been published at Ronni Bennett’s Elder Story Telling site […]
1. Quote floating around on Facebook: Is heck where people go who don’t believe in Gosh? 2. Satan responds to Pat Robertson’s claim that Haiti’s tragedy is a result of a pact they country made with the devil HERE. 3. Have you ever wondered what lives on the other side of your computer screen? Look […]
1. Things have finally slowed down enough around here that when Joe asked one night what I was doing the next day, the extent of my answer was: “I’m on a mission to buy broccoli.” (Translation: I need to go grocery shopping.) 2. When I woke up the next morning the first thing I said […]
1. On the first day of the New Year my computer said this: 2010/01/01. The big decision was whether to call this New Year “two thousand and ten” or “twenty ten.” 2. Out for the benefit concert for our friend Wolf Cherrix on one of the coldest nights in Virginia history, my friend Jayn and […]
1. On Christmas Eve I was reminded of questions like ‘how many people can you fit in a phone booth (do they still exist?) or ‘how many can you fit in a Volkswagen?’ See what I mean HERE. 2. Why did the chicken cross the road? I really did wonder that when I had to […]
1. I recently became interested in the word doodad. An etymology dictionary reports: “unnamed thing,” 1905, chiefly U.S., a made-up word; as is doohickey (1914). Other antonyms for doodad are: Gizmo, thingamajig, and thingamabob. 2. The problem with watching a not so hot DVD movie is that because it’s not memorable there’s a chance I […]
1. Writing is a lot like surfing. You have to catch the wave of creativity and ride it. If you don’t wait for the wave, you’ll be just paddling without much momentum. 2. Waves come and go. If you miss one you can wait for another. But they’re not predictable like a bus schedule, so […]
1. They say that each year 100’s of words are dropped from the English language and that 90% of what we write is communicated using only 7,000 words. Keep a word from going extinct. Adopt one HERE. 2. Enjoy a virtual cup of tea and a tea leaf reading HERE. Don’t burn yourself. The tea […]
1. New answering machine message: What’s your story, Morning Glory? 2. There’s more where that came from HERE. 3. Paradox: Why is an empty heart heavy and a full heart light? 4. While interviewing the owner of a new spa in Floyd, I discovered that cosmetology and cosmology are light years apart but I can’t […]
1. It was an honor to receive an email from long time blog friend Pearl telling me that she had written a poem about me. It’s HERE. 2. Joe and I were watching Saturday Night Live last weekend when he surprised me by asking in all seriousness, “So who are they going to get to […]
