1. Siesta Key is known for its powder white sand. 2. For some it’s a bucket list beach. 3. It’s so white it looks like snow. 4. Visiting in winter is like trading snow for sand. 5. There are so many gulls on the beach that at first glance they can look like litter. 6. […]
1. We had to google the word “medallion” as it refers to steak. 2. We didn’t order bacon. 3. We saw something unexpected. 4. We didn’t swing from the chandelier. 5. But we did cut loose on the dance floor later that night. 6. Spring in Rock Castle Gorge. 7. I’m into it. 8. Anybody […]
1. “Most peculiar, Mama is my new answer for most everything. 2. I was on the phone with my son Josh and said to him, “These are strange days,” to which he answered, “Most peculiar, Mama.” It made my day and I’ve been saying it ever since. 3. I’m starting to need a flashlight to […]
1. Best sign seen at President’s Day protest: Musk is a rat. Call 911 immediately. 2. “A serial liar with a mighty propaganda machine working overtime for him has convinced half the country that up is down, that honor is venality, and that integrity is just a ruse for suckers who believe all that garbage […]
1. Writing poetry is like chink, chink, chink, not like cha’ ching. 2. I like tried and true over new and improved. 3. I call this “Finding Orion’s Belt on My Leg.” 4. And THIS is a 2011 News to Me post. 5. During the terribly misguided Iraq war, I wrote commentaries for The Roanoke […]
1. Being in a dream group is a great way to really get to know someone. Dreams are not about small talk or egos. 2. My rating scale for movies: Memorable, Forgettable, Regrettable. 3. Brooke Shields has said she deals with aging with Lotions and Potions. Joe says he needs Projects and Objects. 4. Mine […]
1. I got quoted on Facebook on a reader’s page: Trump is now saying that inflation is not a big deal and that the biggest concern among Americans is “people coming in from mental institutions.” I think he doesn’t know what the term “asylum seeker” means. 2. YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE WARDROBE […]
1. A New Game in Town same winner is HERE. 2. I danced to “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” with Virginia Electric Saturday night at Dogtown, but I never got around to taking any pictures. 3. I push on in spite of / the crushed shell I see / with innards strewn […]
1. Aka January Juncos. 2. Even Bob Dylan has a Christmas album. Now I have a Christmas poem HERE. 3. If you want more social life go to a grocery store before a snowstorm. 4. Have you RED this? 5. The Belltone hearing-aid people are predatory with their phone calls and mailings that try to […]
1. The word Resolution reminds me of a military drill command like “Attention” or “Forward March.” 2. “Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.” -May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and […]
It was a smaller than usual traditional Christmas Eve gathering. There were a couple of people sick, some who got better just in time and one expecting a Christmas baby (not pictured). But we still had double-header Christmas Eve Parties with the family. And then with the Zephyr Farm Community. There was some singing together. […]
1. This is a teaser of a story soon to appear in The Floyd Press on The HOMETOWN BALLAD SWAP FUNDRAISER FOR MARSHALL NC at The Floyd Country Store on Saturday: Before turning the stage over to the eight generational ballad singers of Madison County, Josh Copus spoke of the devastation that the flood caused […]
