1. Right now I’m unemployed with two full-time jobs, writing and therapy. 2. When I first became a stay at home mother, I remember saying that I had never worked so hard in my life. I’m learning that retirement is similar and that there’s hardly ever any downtime when there’s no separation between my life […]
1. X is a high scoring Scrabble letter. There’s only one in the bag. 2. For a brief time, I had the nickname Xerox. OnThe LoveLink, our family e-mail group, I sign my emails “xocolleen,” and the spell checker kept changing it to “xerox.” 3. It’s a poet’s job to say… the emperor wears no […]
1. For a couple of weeks my husband had a deer hide spread out on the pool table in the basement. Every time I went down there, I was startled by it, thinking our dog Jasmine was up on the table. 2. The deer hide on the pool table gave me a mischievous idea, one […]
1. I recently ran into a friend who I hadn’t seen in awhile. When she asked me what I had been up to lately my answer was this: “I’m the nutty professor of blogging. My computer desk is my lab.” 2. I knew I wanted to be a poet when I heard Leonard Cohen singing […]
1. Eulogy for Falling Leaves: Some die of natural causes … They drift to the ground and close their eyes …. Leaving their perfectly unmarked bodies … scattered like photographs of my ancestors … 2. Read the rest of this poem HERE or listen to my Shakespearian understudy recite a stanza of it HERE. 3. […]
1. Last week I picked my great niece up at school and drove her home because she was sick and her mother couldn’t get off work. On the way, we passed the sign posted here, and I had to pull over to snap a photo. Needless to say, my niece didn’t understand my fascination with […]
1. I live in a log cabin on 3 acres. When describing it to others, I like to lower their expectations by referring to it as a humble abode, lived-in, country, or rustic. 2. My neighbor’s yard is like the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and mine is like the U.S. side. He mows more […]
1. If I was an alien and I landed on earth I’d say TAKE ME TO YOUR OCEAN instead of TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER. 2. The next line would be, “and don’t forget the PEOPLE magazine.” 3. On vacation, life decisions come down to whether we should ride our bikes from the campground to […]
1. My sister has been doing a week long series of “100 Things About Me,” featuring many of our family members. You can check it out HERE. 2. My hands frequently slip on the keyboard while typing, and things ensue that I have no control over. Periodically, I have to abandon a word document and […]
The Scrabble dictionary isn’t really a dictionary at all. It’s a book designed to keep players from spending all their time fighting over what’s a word. ~ Stephen Fatsis 1. Standardized spelling is a modern invention that dates back to the late 19th century. President Andrew Jackson said this: It’s a damn poor mind that […]
1. Blue… winners strive for it … babies’ babble it… purple is another version of it… I once did a poetry reading using only poems that had the word “blue” somewhere in them. 2. There are so many ways to say blue: aquamarine, azure, sapphire, navy, midnight, periwinkle, royal, turquoise, indigo. Did I miss any? […]
1. I love THIS video, found at Kimmy and Jacob’s. Do you think the idea will take hold? I want pink pants just like those. 2. I bet you can read this: Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng […]
