1. While driving home in the rain on the Blue Ridge Parkway at night after babysitting Bryce, I saw three possums, the one that made a car swerve and almost cause a three car accident, the one I later ran over, and the one that happily got away. 2. I saw geese flying in V […]
1. Sometimes I feel like a “Talking Head” who has “Stopped Making Sense.” 2. Speaking of Talking Heads, David Byrne’s latest blog entry is called “Internet Anti-Christ.” He makes this point: I see that in my lifetime I will witness the end of books, or most of them, physical copies of recorded music and probably […]
1. The worst part of being dressed up as a Blues Brother for Halloween and wearing a buttoned-up shirt and tie is that my bra strap slipped off my shoulder while dancing at a party and I couldn’t find a way in to put it back. Pictures HERE. 2. This week I attended the Radford […]
1. Today’s 13 Thursday all started because I did some google research after hearing about a Russian poet who was imprisoned for being a dissident and carved poetry in bars of soap and then memorized the poems before using the soap for washing. 2. I also just learned that they now make catchable, stackable, almost […]
1. On Sunday I went to the Sun Hall to dance to the sweet Grateful Dead tunes of The Kind in a benefit concert to stop mountaintop removal. With friends all around, including a surprise dancing appearance of Ruth, a community elder and one of its best loved matriarch, we raised a lot of energy. […]
1. Fall at my house – a pine log cabin surrounded by woods – is like a warm bowl of mashed carrots and Yukon gold potatoes. 2. I had every intention of going to Christiansburg to get my hair cut but learned that my hairdresser is in Italy. Now I’m forced to wash the kitchen […]
1. This is the time of year when I can’t tell the difference between a monarch butterfly on its way to Mexico and falling leaves when they cross my path. 2. Favorite word this week: Shenanigan 3. Last week I went for my scheduled dentist appointment for the dreaded root canal. It felt like I […]
1. Last night I swore the moon looked like a Gollum with its eye on the brightest star in the sky. 2. I bet I can make you curse within three minutes. Try THIS. 3. Joe and I have a date to look up at the moon every night at 9 p.m. while he’s away […]
1. If THIS is the National Geographic’s Photo of the Month (seen at Sandy’s) then the photo to the left is my answer to it. 2. My nephews, pictured jumping off a Blue Ridge Parkway Mountain, are not named This and That but are Mat and Pat. 3. Worst political T-shirt hoisted on a kid […]
1. The World Health Organization ranked the U.S. health care system only 37th in the world. Nothing to sing about, but HE DID. 2. At the recent year celebration of the local literary magazine Floyd County Moonshine and tribute readings to the late poet Elliot Dabinisky, my friend Mara brought me a confusing gift: a […]
1. While driving home from the grocery store I passed my black Honda CRV with the license plate LETITB parked downtown and had a pang of panic, like I had astral projected out of my body and was watching it on the bed sleeping. Of course, I had forgotten that Joe borrowed my car and […]
1. How many beans can you stand to hear scream? Find out HERE. 2. Only in Floyd: This past weekend I danced to the grooves of The Emily Brass Band at the Pine Tavern Floyd Family Jamfest and was caught at the nighttime fire dance intermission show without a decent camera. 3. I recently realized […]
