1. It was a good week. I killed a poisonous snake and had more than one date. 2. My son Josh, who has a composting outhouse on his North Carolina property, makes a good point when he says that future generations will balk when they hear that we used such a valuable resource as water [...]
1. When I woke up Sunday morning after going out dancing two nights in a row and saw the wrist band around my wrist, I thought for a split second that maybe I’d been in the hospital. 2. It’s always good when I go dancing and apple picking and get a massage all in the [...]
1. My favorite part of writing is when I start to like what I’m working on. I recently wrote such a good article on a green insulation company for Natural Awakenings magazine that I actually had them come out to give me an estimate on my own recommendation. 2. I spent the weekend working on [...]
1. Best line heard this week, spoken by a farmer: “Yeah, I have a PHD. It’s called a post hole digger.” 2. Joe and I went out for a drive the other night to look at the full moon and take pictures, but I couldn’t find the black camera case in the dark car at [...]
1. You know you’ve been on the computer too long when you find yourself pointing and clicking your mouse in an effort to knock off a cobweb that’s hanging from the monitor. 2. Watching a hummingbird check out a pink plastic ball in our yard yesterday reminded me of the time a goat tried to [...]
1. After an earthquake, a hurricane and a fall that fractured my arm, I’m kinda glad last week is over. 2. Two under-the-radar Floyd blogs with a focus on sustainability and simple living are HERE and HERE. 3. I like to round numbers up when it comes to time, unless, of course, it’s my birthday. [...]
1. If you forgive the fox for stealing your chickens, he will take your sheep. ~ Georgian Proverb 2. Sometimes we fall in love or fall for something because we are gullible. We fall out of grace or off the wagon. Other times we just fall. 3. Said to my husband Joe after 3 hours [...]
1. I wrote a long poem on yellow legal pad paper in my sleep last night. It felt like breaking new ground. Today, the only line I can remember is ‘you can’t make these things up.’ 2. At one point, while still dreaming, I recalled telling a writer friend the day before that the most [...]
1. I like the title of Steven Tyler’s new book Is the Noise in My Head Bothering You? 2. Considering that Tyler lives in the same small Massachusetts town as my sister when he’s not in L.A., right near where I grew up, and considering that I once stood as close as couple of yards [...]
1. Funny how the verbs “burst” and “bust” seem related. 2. Speaking of ‘bust,” THIS is my favorite video clip taken at Floydfest, titled “Bryce Busts a Move.” 3. When I first saw THIS trapeze attraction at Floydfest I thought ‘you couldn’t pay me to that.’ After I saw the net below it and watched [...]
1. It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. ~Walter Winchell 2. This summer of record breaking heat followed a spring that brought some of the most extreme weather on record. Climatologist Heidi Cullen writes, “It’s time to face the fact that the weather isn’t what it used to [...]
1. I was juggling 3-year-old Bryce and his baby brother in my lap, along with a book that Bryce asked me to read. Being uncomfortable, I was reading quick and going through the motions when Bryce interrupted me. “Nana, you’re different,” he said concerned. Turned out that he didn’t approve of the way I was [...]
1. Up until Wednesday night it looked like all I had for my 13 list was: Tivek is the Kleenex of siding. 2. My fingers get confused going from commenting on blogs to commenting on Facebook the way my feet get confused while driving a stick shift one day and an automatic next. 3. Note [...]
1. Got invited to: Nothing. Location: Anywhere. On Facebook by Pearl. 2. Heard on Independence Day: “May the Fourth be with you,” but it was too late to use it in a blog title. 3. After I finish a push of writing several feature stories at a time I take a deep breath and think [...]
1. This is the time of year when I haven’t finished planting and am already harvesting. We’re eating swiss chard, summer squash, broccoli, beans, and blueberries. 2. Hours of time are eaten up in the garden so that we can eat. 3. When I go out to weed and find myself picking with nothing to [...]
1. “I feel like bluebirds are carrying pieces of silk fabric and floating them around my head when I’m with her.” ~ My son Josh about his girlfriend Katie. 2. We have a wren’s nest in our tree birdhouse, a phoebe nest on our porch rafter and an unknown nest inside the hardhat helmet worn [...]
1. I love this: Jeff Beck says he pretends he doesn’t know how to play the guitar everyday when he picks it up to play. 2. I just noticed that Bill Gates first name is in the word Billion. 3. Time to find something else to do besides renting movies in Floyd. The end of [...]
1. It took going to the National Music Festival solo classical musical performances at the Floyd Country Store last Thursday night to force me to figure out how to mute the beep on my camera. 2. We have a computer chair in my office room that’s adjustable for height, which allows me to shout out [...]
