1. THIS is the song I’ve been dancing to two or three times a day. I may be stuck in the past but at least it’s not classic rock. 2. I’ve been dancing for a long time. Remember those wallet size high school senior pictures that we went around getting signed at the end of […]
1. THIS is the song that Joe says made him fall in love with me. I was singing it to him as he fell asleep when it happened. 2. If I ever do get a cell phone THIS is the ring tone I want. 3. Lately, I’ve been searching down and listening to songs that […]
1. The neighborhood dogs are sitting out October … like wallflowers in the corner … they’re overdressed in fur. 2. I love an Indian Summer because it lets me stay in denial about the coming of cold weather a little longer. 3. These days I’ve taken to wearing an orange cat cap with black ears […]
1. When I stumbled upon a flesh colored oyster shell on the campground shower floor, for a few seconds and I thought it was a disembodied ear. 2. No, I don’t bring my camera into the shower. You’ll just have to use your imagination. 3. “Campsites are like rows of motel rooms with the doors […]
1. My friend Alwyn has been known to care for feral cats. She named one Misery, a name whose melodic sound defies its actual meaning. 2. I have an imaginary small press called “The Nevertheless Press.” 3. I recently rushed to meet my girlfriends who were scheduled to pick me up at the bottom of […]
1. I want to be a Blue Man when I grow up. 2. I want to write a poem with the words critic and citrus in the same line. 3. I still miss Seinfeld. 4. I spent an afternoon last week with a young man with developmental disabilities and an elder woman who is losing […]
1. My current philosophy on entertainment is a lot like how I feel about food. Provide it yourself or get it locally grown whenever possible. 2. Years ago when I started to become less likely to travel distances for events, I remember saying “Let them come to us.” And some did. Leon Russell and Maria […]
1. Whenever I’m given a writing assignment, I feel like Rumplestilskin being asked to spin straw into gold. At first it feels impossible that I will ever be able to create something out of nothing, but sometimes and somehow I do. 2. I was asked to write stories for a women’s magazine insert in regional […]
1. Will Planet X collide with earth and tip it on its axis? After watching 60 Minutes last week and seeing the rate that the Antarctic icebergs are melting, I’m more worried about the reality of that than a bump from a possible planet knocking us out of existence. 2. Was THIS John Lennon’s idea […]
1. Sometimes reading seems like too much input, like taking in second hand information when I could be having original thoughts. 2. By the time I was eleven I was coveting Dear Abby’s job and reading Erma Bombeck while thinking, “hmmm, you can make money doing that?” 3. I felt similar about the Dick Van […]
1. You know how my blog statement says, “Whenever I don’t know exactly what it is I’m doing and it borders on wasting my time, I call it research?” Well this is how that works: 2. Bonnie the Wordsmith had a post titled “Under the Weather.” In it she admits that she doesn’t know what […]
1. Blogger, Absolute Vanilla, recently compared the task of editing her new manuscript to childbirth, in contrast to the flush of writing the first draft, which she compared to sex. “I don’t know about the rest of you but for me, the first write of a new story is one magnificent adventure – it’s passionate, […]
