1. Poetically, I don’t like the word bucolic, the way Billy Collins doesn’t like “cicada.” I think it’s a self-conscious word that sounds like an illness, even though it means an idyllic country setting. 2. I call THIS my Asheville Potterson Josh’s font. 3. It’s the cover of the latest Studio Potter Magazine, an issue […]
1. There’s something contagious going around Floyd that makes poets write poems about Peter Pan. So far there are five poems with this theme written by five different poets who are scheduled to read them at the café bus at Floyd Fest this weekend. Also, OUTLOUD, the woman’s poetry collective I’m a member of, will […]
1. I’m an avid follower of world news, but not lately. The Bush presidency is like a bad movie that’s being drawn out even though many of us saw right through the plot from the start. I wish I could hit fast forward or rewind. 2. If your answering machine message says this: “Speak in […]
1. Number 90 on my “100 Things about Me” says, “My energy is like a ball I’m trying to keep up. If it falls it stays down for a while.” 2. On my first day home after my twelve day trip to visit my family on Massachusetts coast, I didn’t have the strength to […]
1. “I’m pretty much an open book with a few pages torn out.” So read a comment I left on someone’s blog entry that was inspired by the recent Sunday Scribblings prompt, “I have a secret.” 2. HERE’S what my sister and I do when we’re on vacation. We go to the hairdresser, NOT! 3. […]
1. It occurred to me recently that blogging is a desk job. When I told my husband, who is a counselor, that I had a desk job, he said, “I do too. We both have desk jobs.” 2. “But mine is more of a desk job,” I said, referring to the amount of time I […]
1. If my blog was a seven day menu, photographs would be appetizers, short posts would be salads, long posts would be the main entries, and poetry would be dessert. 2. Sometimes I wish the word “blog” didn’t sound so much like “blob” and remind me of the 1958 movie (The Blob) staring Steve McQueen […]
1. While working a long weekend helping my son Josh raise a roof over his kiln site, my husband nearly forgot the foot injury he got at a recent martial arts event. The first morning back at home, he started thinking about it again and it started to hurt. “Why is it that when things […]
1. If they say the moon is blue, we must believe that it is true. ~ 1528 Proverb 2. I figure the connection between the moon and the cow that jumped over it must be the MOO in the word MOON. 3. And whoever came up with the idea that the moon is made of […]
1. Ruth from Spilling Out (no pun intended) recently told a lovely story about getting her first period at camp. It involved “two old roan-coloured nags plodding,” which made me comment, “I’m not sure what it means but it’s poetry to my ears. 2. She called her period “the curse,” which reminded me that we […]
1. We now interrupt our regular Thirteen Thursday Program to bring you this message: This is not your average Thirteen Thursday. This is not Typepad. But it is my birthday. 2. When I heard that my server was shutting down, I kicked up my heels and followed the yellow brick road over to a new […]
1. DID YOU HEAR THAT SOUND? I JUST FELL OFF MY CHAIR!!! That’s what I said to my blog friend, Patry, after reading the email she sent me with the subject line: the strangest coincidence ever. At the same time she discovered that one of her cousins used to live here in Floyd, she also […]
