1. Yesterday’s writer’s cramp is today’s carpal tunnel. 2. Sometimes I like to run my hand across the keyboard like Liberace playing piano. 3. Besides covering two stories, participating in a live radio interview about Bill McKibben’s visit to Floyd, and putting together the Museletter (a Floyd community newsletter) this past weekend, I managed to […]
1. A mother phoebe with a nest in the porch rafters has been using our picnic table for her runway while making feeding trips to her babies, as evidenced by the bird droppings I have to clean up everyday. 2. The above gives new meaning to the term “poop deck.” 3. “Pooh” is actually a […]
1. I check for blossoms on my flowers with the same vigilance that I check for blog comments. 2. My Thirteen Thursday last week was almost canceled due to lack of comments on Wednesday. It was the first time in the four years I’ve been blogging that an entry received no comments, so I considered […]
1. Does Shebang mean the same thing as a kit and caboodle? 2. I recently became interested in the word “Shebang” and looked up its origins and found this: Known to go back at least to year 1862 (Walt Whitman), shebang is suspected to originate from the French word char-a-banc, which was a bus-like wagon […]
1. A year or so ago I would never have guessed that I’d be interviewing and writing about an opera singer, a cheesemaker, a toymaker, and a pool player. It sounds like a jump rope song. 2. One thing I’ve learned about going on interviews for stories is that wearing my reading glasses in a […]
1. Last month I reported being on the gum diet, how I picked up an old habit of chewing and snapping and getting a general jaw workout whenever I felt snacking. 2. But my bubble has burst: Not only have I not lost any weight, I just remembered why I quit chewing gum in the […]
1. After 183 Thirteen Thursday’s I find myself wondering if there will ever come a Thursday when I have nothing left to say. 2. I also worry about the size of my blog. After four years of archives, I wonder how big can a blog get? 3. When I first started blogging I wrote this: […]
1. Earth Day in Floyd has a blog. Read all about it HERE. 2. Another new blog in my blogsphere: My Asheville potter son Josh is following in his mother’s footsteps as a documenter. He just started his own (collectively written) blog for the Carolina Kiln Build, an immersion onsite workshop for building two new […]
1. I have never typed LOL (except for just now), but did type LMAO once. It was when I wrote that talk show host Bonnie Hunt had a 13 on her coffee cup and my sister Sherry told me in a comment that it was really a B for her name. 2. Poets are the […]
1. I just got asked to a do a writing assignment via a Facebook Instant message. 2. So of course I asked the subject of the proposed interview in a Facebook Instant message if he want to meet me. 3. I named this week’s Thirteen Thursday for THIS video clip. 4. I recently read a […]
1. This is my 180th Thirteen Thursday, so last week when I posted my 179th on Wednesday thinking it was Thursday, I blamed it on old age. 2. I also had jet lag. But I had no such excuse when I posted THIS 13 Thursday on Friday because on Thursday I forgot what day it […]
1. In addition to Floyd’s new literary and art magazine. Floyd County Moonshine, we also now have the Republic of Floyd (featuring the Floyd Enquirer), which spoofsayer Tom Ryan has coined as a “literary enema.” Tom writes about the lighter side of Floyd with a bite. See HERE. 2. Talk Show Host Bonnie Hunt has […]
