Amazing what you find when you’re looking for it
Chattanooga is a beautiful Southern city and one of its crowning gems is the Bluff View Arts District. Every time we visit–and trust me, it demands a walking tour–I discover something new. Long-time friends were in town over the weekend and they...
On friendship
There is a comfort among old friends irreplaceable by the new. A common history, shared life, growing up and old, stories worn ragged by telling and re-telling (but welcome every time). Successes and failures and challenges, applauded, encouraged and met–so...
Delirium does not a lyricist make…
or d o e s it?
Friday’s 40-or-less PC, #13
{Sung to the tune of "Itsy, Bitsy Spider"} The not-so-bitsy spider crawled up my outside wall His beady eyes and creepy legs, my skin began to crawl! Off came my shoe and smacked that sucker flat– That not-so-bitsy spider ain’t nevah...
He may be missin’ a leg, but he still scares the snot outta me!
Friday’s 40 PC
Do you know which is the truth: Granddaddy Long Legs have such tiny mouths, they can’t sink their blood sucking fangs bite you well enough to inject their venomous poison, or they aren’t poisonous to begin with? Either? Neither?...
It’s centrifugal motion, it’s perpetual bliss…
My concern wasn’t that we’d get caught or I’d do it wrong or that I’d freeze from an Arctic December night– I was worried our braces would lock. Surely that lunacy is perpetuated by parents who hope to dissuade their teens from ...
There’s no mistaking the “Twilight” zone for “The Twilight Zone”
After the 34th time my daughter said, "I L O V E THIS BOOK!" it occurred to me I might enjoy reading it myself. Even if it was about mythical creatures. In spite of its intended "young adult" audience (I hardly...
Occasionally, I’m actually almost Wordless
Noni’s and Grandy’s farm, August 2008. I promise, when I clicked this picture, the calf was NOT doing that! If I didn’t know she was a "she", I’d swear she was a "he"! Which is exactly why I...
It’s a phenom for a reason
Theirs is a siren’s call and I find them irresistible. Unexpectedly so. They’re making me lose sleep. They’re stirring imagination and speculation and infatuation and the more I’ve tasted the more I want to devour. A n y idea...