People tell me no one goes to the library anymore. But I think there’s something there for everyone. Sure, you can get all of your needs met on-line. You can read books on Kindle, or go “old school” and order a book from Amazon for less than five dollars. But the public library is an
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April 18, 2014 // 1 Comment
One thing about gardening is that you never stop learning. Once upon a time, I shared my trial-and-error knowledge with anyone who would listen. Now that I’m a Master Gardener, even my husband wants my opinion. LAWN CARE The lawn is a wonderful thing if maintained and cared for properly. Never
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April 9, 2014 // 0 Comments
Here’s the totality of what I know about gardening: in order to get stuff to grow, you need sun, water, fertile earth and good timing. The first three are self-evident; by the ladder, I’m referring to planting seasons. I live in Florida, where, in theory, you can plant stuff year-round.
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April 7, 2014 // 1 Comment
On Saturday, I drove my late-model compact Ford with scratches on the hood from where I’d gotten fed up after a Nor’easter that one time in upstate New York and took a fekkin’ snow shovel to it through a Florida monsoon to the costume store, where a dude with bleached white hair helped me
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April 3, 2014 // 1 Comment
Historically, April Fools’ Day can be traced back to the late 1500s, when the majority of Europe changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Moving the New Year up from just after the time of vernal equinox to January 1st caused much confusion. Those traditionalists who chose
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March 31, 2014 // 1 Comment
I have always been a little preoccupied with retro — the retro housewife, that is. Her casseroles, her pearls, her picket fences. I collected old Good Housekeeping magazines, 50s etiquette guides and tattered cookbooks, not to learn how to be the perfect wife and mother, but for research. Every
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March 29, 2014 // 2 Comments
Poets are dazzling people, but not in the way you might think. They are PhDs of observation, CEOs of the sensory world. Non-poets carefully tend to their careers, their families, their possessions, hates and loves. Most of them are good citizens who contribute in positive ways to this world. But
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March 28, 2014 // 2 Comments
Poetry is the primary language for the interpretation of all I sense around me, and all that I can sense within me. All written expression comes to me in poetic form first, then, the best way I can apply those bursts and blips of language determines genre, usually. More often than not, I don’t do
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March 27, 2014 // 8 Comments
When I start writing, I never know where the poem will take me. I began “Bird in Flight” on a plane heading to my home state. Using the sestina form with 6 end words repeating is structured, yet ultimately freeing. This poem won an award from the Portland, Oregon National League of American Pen
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March 26, 2014 // 14 Comments
Elisa and I have been writing poems together on various subjects and in various forms back and forth over email since early 2006. This poem is from a series of them that we wrote inspired by Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on ‘Camp’” from 1964 and by George Orwell’s memoir Down and Out in
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March 25, 2014 // 1 Comment
bucketology 