1. I just sent an email to a friend and ended it with: I’m up to my white streak with packing for our trip to Florida. Because we’ll be in the camper, we take everything, even the kitchen sink! 2. I said to my husband last night, “It’s cold with a capitol F! You can […]
1. Do you know any of THESE bloggers? The last time I looked when I found it on Pearl’s blog I could pick out about seven that I knew. 2.THIS (via Susan) might blow your mind. It’s a glimpse into autistic woman’s inner world, providing insight into autism unlike anything I’ve seen before. You have […]
1. While in town I ran into a woman whose name is Florence and who I only just recently met. She couldn’t remember my name. When I reminded her that it had something to do with Ireland (Colleen means “girl” in Gaelic) she said, “I still can’t remember, so I’m going to call you Lassie!” […]
1. When it comes to music, I tend to be monogamous. It only takes one good CD to keep me happy for a long time. 2. Right now I’m married to Nora Jones. 3. She says: “The poet’s are demanding their pay. They’ve left me with nothing to say.” Do you think I should apply? […]
1. No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~ Zen Proverb. 2. As far as writing goes, I’m a late bloomer because I’m self-taught and I spent the majority of my adult years as a stay-at-home mother. 3. In Floyd, we have homebirth, homeschool, homegrown, and homemade. I guess I fit in pretty good […]
1. This is a great quote by John F. Kennedy (re-discovered via Rick) to begin the New Year with: “We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or omniscient — that we are only 6 percent of the world’s population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent […]
1. Favorite low-tech Christmas gift given to Josh by Colleen: A manual Smith Corona typewriter. 2. Or maybe it was the Christmas ball of lights made out of plastic cups that I got in the Christmas Eve Yankee swap and called “Steve Martin’s Brain.” 3. Pens appear out of nowhere in my house like socks […]
1. Sarah Mclachlan has a wonderful new Christmas CD out called Wintersong. You can hear her singing Joni Mitchell’s “River” HERE. Link via Simpy Coll. 2. And HERE’S a short video clip taken by an art collector of my Asheville potter son, Josh, at his UNC BFA graduation exhibit. 3. I got Josh a box […]
1. I don’t know how to make faces with computer keys, but I can see the hidden images in Magic Eye Art. Can you? 2. When it comes to penning old fashioned letters, I’m like the carpenter who builds things all day but never gets around to building or fixing things in her own house. […]
1. Does your arm ever get tired from blogging? 2. Do you have a callus on your mouse hand? 3. Note to young offspring, “Don’t end a phone conversation with your mother by saying “My hands are being held together by super glue!” 4. My Asheville potter son has been working overtime to prepare for […]
1. Putting on mascara before going out to a therapy session is like curling my hair before taking shower. 2. Hanging up from talking on the phone to my husband, I said, “I’ve got to get back to doing whatever it was I wasn’t getting done.” 3. He’s a counselor who specializes in substance abuse. […]
1. Note to self: Don’t try washing the grey out of your bangs in the bathroom next to white curtains. 2. You’ve heard of a “bad hair day”? Sometimes I have a bad brain day when nothing gets started and nothing gets going. 3. Last week I got my hair cut and my teeth cleaned. […]
