1. When we were kids we thought the two bones that stuck out under our shoulder blades were where our wings would go when we died and became angels. Doing the Sunday Scribblings prompt on “wings” last week reminded me of it. 2. Have you ever noticed that being forced to overhear a loud cell […]
1. My camera is becoming like a second pen. I pick it up and snap almost as much as I jot down notes. Taking pictures is a lot less work than writing is. With one good click you get an instant story. 2. Every time a bird lands on my birdbath angel’s head I think […]
1. I have three re-occurring characters on my blog; my Asheville potter son, Josh, my Scrabble playing poet friend, Mara, and my pink sneakers. 2. THIS chair is pretty strange, but THIS crooked house in Poland is truly mind boggling. 3. Blogging has been a good remedy for my shyness. My camera is like a […]
1. My poet friend Mara called and wanted me to look something up for her. “Pool hours,” she said, but I heard something like poolours and thought it was a new poetry form like pantoums! 2. Did you know that belly laughs are like pain killers? 3. Seen at Fire Cat’s on Easter Sunday – […]
AKA: That’s the Ticket! 1. I’m a sucker for an online generator. When it comes to generators (like this ticket found at Tales from Creekistan), I’m like the kid in school who had to stick her hands up in front of the movie projector to make shadows on the screen when the lights went out. […]
1. My new pink sneakers were a compromise. I was going for ruby red slippers. 2. THIS is why I keep my hands in my pocket when I go to town. 3. I don’t like to use toxic pesticides. When the flies, hornets, and ladybugs crawling around my window panes get out of hand, I […]
1. I have spring fever, literally. In the Chinese Medicine tradition it’s called a tidal fever and has something to do with a yin or yang deficiency. For me it’s related to Chronic Fatigue. Every year when the sap is rising, so does my temperature by a few degrees. More on that HERE. 2. I […]
1. Between early Day Light Savings and just the thought of St. Patrick’s day, I have to say, I’ve been feeling a little hung over. 2. My blog is wearing green because I’m Irish. 3. This blog was born on St. Patrick’s Day. See HERE. 4. I can’t decide if blarney is a bunch of […]
1. Lately I’ve been calling my blog my writer’s Petrie dish. 2. Some people are getting serious about leaving poems on my answering machine, especially my friend Mara. In answer to my instructions that say “Speak in rhyme if you’re so inclined,” she’s been leaving me long sonnets. 3. Her latest message, “Sonnet for the […]
1. Sometimes the waxing moon looks like a high heeled glass slipper with a missing heel, as it did this past weekend when I peered out of my window at midnight and wondered if Cinderella made it home in time. 2. Jayn and I named the moon for this month’s Museletter “Lucky Moon,” but we […]
1. We left the white sandy beaches of Florida for a solid floor of ice and empty birdfeeders in Floyd. 2. Because Virginia falls somewhere in between being a southern and a northern state and our winter weather can’t decide whether to rain or snow, we are prone to have ice storms. 3. I can […]
1. Most overheard words spoken by Colleen in Cedar Key: “That house could use a little pink paint.” 2. According to the placemat at the Seabreeze Restaurant, Cedar Key is known as “The Oasis in time.” According to the Cedar Key Historical Museum brochure, which I read on Valentine’s Day, there’s a small key near […]
