1. This is the time of year that I’m up to my nostrils in pesto making. 2. After the transition to HD caused a more than few TV channels to disappear and a new one to appear, I’ve started watching Sex in City reruns for the first time and have found myself wishing they’d do […]
1. A rattle under my car turned out to be a heat fan loose on my catalytic converter, which I like to call a “Cadillac converter.” 2. I like to call the spots and blemishes that appear on skin of a certain age barnacles because they remind me of the way barnacles grow on old […]
1. Hey, where is everyone? I went through my sidebar blog links and discovered that half the people on the list aren’t blogging anymore. 2. Words and phrases heard this week: “a hoot called Boots,” “a pseudo sonnet,” and someone used fracus in a sentence. 3. I grew up calling corn “cawn” and shorts “shots.” […]
1. I recently did a story on a local artist in which I had to edit out all the F-U-s and made sure not to mention that we sipped some peach moonshine at the end of our interview. 2. I think my interest in writing about other people’s lives started when I wrote by brother […]
1. Lately I’ve been thinking about those leather patches on sweaters worn by professors and realizing, as I type and click with my elbows on the arm rests of my chair, that I might be needing some soon. 2. I’ve also been wondering about bedsores and if there is a computer version of them. 3. […]
1. Where else can you get an ice cream and a massage, take a dance class, go art and craft shopping in an open market, and then sip a micro brew by a garden fountain while listening to live music, all in one day and in one scenic location? ~ A line from the story […]
1. I recently discovered that when you’re measured in a doctor’s office they do not record ½ inches. The last time I got measured the nurse told me that and after measuring me, she asked if I wanted her to write down 5 foot or 5 foot 1 inch, to which I replied, “I want […]
1. Said to Joe while driving on Interstate 95 from D.C. to Massachusetts, “If we’re not broke from paying tolls we can stop and buy some dinner.” 2. Not only is driving on Interstate 95 a nightmare, they make you pay for the grief they give you, to the tune of about $40 to get […]
1. My two favorite words heard recently are brouhaha and jalopy. 2. I keep getting the Jubilee and the Jamboree mixed up. We have both in Floyd now. 3. I’ve been calling the Station, the newly renovated old building in town with apartments upstairs, the Dakota of Floyd. 4. While shopping this week I saw […]
1. My corn is taller than a toddler. 2. If it was a kid it would be in the second grade. 3. “Does it Grow Corn?” is a Native American expression not so unlike “Walk your Talk,” one that I first heard from Medicine Man Sun Bear when he came to Floyd in the 80’s […]
1. A couple of times this month when I was reading my blog comments I thought that my friend June from Spatter had visited but it was really just the month June recorded with each comment that I was reading. 2. I confess to not understanding Deal or No Deal and not wanting to. 3. […]
1. I sent Mara and Kyla home with a bag full of garden lettuce when they were here playing Scrabble last week. Later, Mara texted me an email from her new phone saying, “Thanx 4 the lettuce.” I replied “are you alliterating it or just ating it?” 2. To which she texted back “lets see…lettuce […]
