1. On the Fourth of July, I made a red, white, and blue dessert for my house guest: strawberries, blueberries, and whipped cream! 2. I actually had two house guests over the weekend, one who wore American flag boxers, and the other wore Red Sox ones. 3. I found myself being thankful that it doesn’t […]
1. You know when you forget someone’s name and no matter how hard you try, even if it’s on the tip of your tongue, you can’t remember. Then you go off and do something else and the name just pops in your head? Writing poetry is like that. 2. At Johanna and Nick’s wedding, my […]
1. Hung-over with fun from the wedding on Saturday, I dragged myself to a Woman’s Clothing Exchange the next day. Over a dozen women came and dumped piles of clothes all over my friend Penny’s living room for a real Filenes’s Basement experience. I didn’t have the energy to organize a fashion show shot of […]
1. At the beach Joe said to me, “I’m so glad you introduced me to naps, baths, and beaches.” Yeah, that about sums me up. 2. I didn’t think of my father, who died in 2005, very much on Father’s Day. But the next morning, upon waking and while still in-between the dream world and […]
1. Blogging helps me know what day it is, which I wouldn’t know otherwise because I don’t have a regular job, and I especially don’t know when I’m at the beach, which I am now. 2. Yesterday I was browsing through “Virginia Living” magazine and found this interesting story about Edgar Allen Poe: A bust […]
1. I’ve never been very sports-minded. It’s taken THIS recent injury to my leg to get me in soccer knee pads. They come in handy when I have to crawl on all fours to get around. 2. Since I’ve hurt my leg and taken to crawling, I’ve noticed how dirty it is down here on […]
1. Printer’s ink is to a writer what gas is to a trucker. And it costs almost as much. 2. If you wake up and get on the computer too early, your typing might look like this: Mpr of ujt uo,t hpy d;; jpg ,tm up bp,t up ujtog dog ph ujt bpimuiy/ 3. Ever […]
1. I find myself going to my own blog just to look at photos of my new grandson. 2. While in the hospital visiting my son, daughter-in-law, and their new baby, I saw an old clip on the hospital TV of Anita Bryant getting hit in the face with a pie. When I got home, […]
1. The moon is poetry to the sun’s prose, shining indirectly but penetrating deeply. 2. Why do so many writers hold their hand up to the side of their face in their book jacket photos? Have you ever posed like that in the mirror just to see how it looks? 3. Comment to my blog […]
1. I was recently typing the name of my book of poems, Muses Like Moonlight, and typed “Mooses Like Moonlight” by mistake. 2. Written on the inside on my latest notebook: Note to self – in writing. 3. I can understand why my youtube video of the Hokie Wave Cheer at the Dave Matthews and […]
1. New motto for my overbooked husband: “No” is a complete sentence. 2. Handwritten on the inside cover of my book of Mary Oliver’s poems: The poet’s answer to Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings. 3. Seen on a Get Well Greeting Card at the Pharmacy: “Don’t worry – Stressed is just Desserts spelled backwards.” 4. Flamingos remind […]
1. Black tea is like whiskey to herb tea’s wine. 2. I don’t like chocolate for the sake of it. For me, chocolate is like a condiment to go with mint, peanut butter, ice cream, or cherries. 3. I never had a baby shower or wedding shower. But I do love baths. 4. I have […]
