1. After my grandsons’ recent sleepover I was left with a bruised rib from wrestling, a few half eaten apples in odd places around the house and bunch of broken water balloons in the yard. 2. The term “Wild Animal Park,” which someone I know spoke of recently, is an oxymoron. 3. I recently [...]
1. Written on an old scrap that I just dug out from a pile of papers: You don’t have to inject patience, just withdraw the irritation. The patience is there naturally. 2. Some things I don’t have much patience for, including when my fourth grade flip flopped on a picture taking day: HERE. 3. A [...]
1. This week, I learned all kinds of things, like what vegetables hold more pesticide residue than others, the discovery of a species of giant bug that scientists had thought was extinct, a new literary magazine to consider submitting poetry to, and that the man and woman who did the voices of Mickey Mouse and [...]
1. I think THIS home movie of my grandsons Bryce and Liam is a good ad for the arts, drawing and dancing, what could be more fun? 2. I love to dance and when I go out dancing I like to dance next to people who also love to dance because it raises my game, [...]
1. Have I mentioned that I have a stalker? He’s someone from high school that I didn’t know existed back then. His obsession with me (and one of my girlfriends) is mostly inactive now, although on my birthday last week a family member reported that someone they know saw him and he knew it was [...]
1. “13 Words That Need To Be Brought Back Into Fashion,” including Dandiprat, a silly, finicky person, and an anythingarian, one that holds no particular creed or dogma, are HERE. 2. How times have changed: Most of us likely associate the word “groovy” with 1960s flower children, but had you hollered out the word a [...]
1. I think it’s appropriate that we have nine hens since both Joe and I are one of nine siblings. 2. Recently overheard at my house: Was it a shoe-in or just a foot in the door? 3. Sometimes I feel like the world is like a snow globe that is getting tilted upside down [...]
1. My 2 year old Grandson Liam didn’t fall far from the tree. 2. The county of Kildare in Ireland means “Church in the Oaks” in Gaelic. 3. Best line heard at the recent TEDxFloyd on the environment: “Your home is not Las Vegas. What happens in your home doesn’t stay there. When you waste [...]
1. We have our own West Side Story playing out at our house. After introducing four new hens to the existing five in the hen house, we now have two rival gangs, which I’ve been calling The Jets and the Sharks. 2. Dude is the new daddy-o. 3. Blackberry is to iphone what Myspace [...]
1. Is the word negligible related to “not legible? Is a negligee a negligible piece of clothing? Is negligence the opposite of vigilance? 2. I discovered years ago that I can only roller skate or ice skate going counter clockwise around the rink. If I try to skate clockwise, I become clumsy and fall. 3. [...]
1. When Margaret Hatcher died on Monday some Twitter users thought Cher had died because a Twitter message read #NowThatcher’sDead – Now Thatcher’s Dead – and some read it as #NowThatCher’sDead. 2. That reminds me of the time a friend of mine had a T-shirt on that said “Hug therapist” but I read it as [...]
1. I don’t like to live anywhere where I can watch people come and go from my window, but I don’t seem to mind watching the birds at the bird feeder do the same. 2. I was a little thrown last week when so many of my Facebook friends posted a red square – with [...]
1. Everything that Joe and I do stopped when he got the flu, I had a cold and a spring snow storm blew in. After almost of a week of being home like that, it began to feel like a bizzaro vacation world, where the highlight of our simplified day was eating breakfast together, lying [...]
1. Best quote seen on Facebook this week: Growing your own food is like printing your own money. ~ Ron Finley 2. The closest I came to wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day was brushing my teeth with my green toothbrush and drinking a stinging nettles infusion. 3. Posted on March 18, 2008: “I’m so [...]
1. I recently rode by a house with a series of red towels hanging on a clothesline and wondered if they would provoke the bulls in the neighboring field. 2. My grandson Bryce is growing up fast. I have to admit I was a little heartbroken when I heard him on Monday say the word [...]
1. Since hearing Nancy Sinatra’s old song “These Boots are Made for Walking” last week, while watching the PBS special on the history of feminism, I’ve been saying to Joe, when we’re getting ready to go someplace, “Are you ready, boots?” 2. My four-year-old grandson Bryce likes to play Mario and Luigi. Yesterday I asked [...]
1. My grandson Bryce and I like to say “boom-shaka-laka.” 2. It’s a pretty weird world when you open a bag of parsnips from the grocery store and it says “like us on Facebook” on the bag. 3. I wonder who came up with the idea to cue Oscar winners at the Academy Awards to [...]
1. “Life is too short to try and glue together the broken plates that were cheap in the first place.” ~ Blog title by master title-er Jennifer at Open Book. 2. The picture posted above is a self portrait in mosaic from a gas station in Blacksburg that was decorated by school kids and has [...]
