It has been a while! My last post was a few years back, and at the time we were thinking of moving to Minnesota. Update: We did not move to Minnesota! Instead, we moved back to Florida, and I am home! I made the most of one amazing year in my hometown, Lake Wales, Florida, …
Born and bred, raised and reared — I am a Florida girl, though I haven’t resided there in over twenty-four years! Throughout a year in Wisconsin, five years in Northern California, and long enough in the OC to raise my kids, I have always thought that eventually I would be back in Florida. I’m not …
I’m not even sure “under-read” is actually a word, perhaps because I am so under-read, but I am truly woeful of my lack of readness? Come to think of it, my vocabulary might be lacking as well! I discovered my malady after my friend Jeff, who just happens to be an awesomely cool librarian, texted me “Bronte …
When I was a little girl, my much-older brother came home to central Florida for a summer visit, and we decided to garden. It was to be a vegetable garden fit for a king, and in the process my brother would teach me how delicious hard work could taste! We dug up half the back …
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss — brilliant! Thanks to my teacher-friend Dean Leigh for passing it along to me. This beautiful book is about punctuation. Isn’t that wonderful? Now, don’t roll your eyes at me. I understand that most people do not appreciate nor care to read about punctuation, but I do. A well-constructed …
I lie in bed watching trees, buffeted, straining in the wind, and back-porch chairs skidding across the concrete toward the garden, where they topple and lie like corpses after battle next to my beloved collard green bushes. I can practically hear the greens calling to one another, “Bend! Bend! Bend, or you’ll break!” So, I …
The first college football playoff is in the history books. The playoff system resulted in a number two and a number four team playing each other for the championship, and it was a great game, the battle of the “O’s”! It was also, for me, a thought roller coaster. Not being linked to or particularly …
“Would you like ketchup, Miss?” the child said to me as he handed me my burgers and fries. Miss? Miss? He was my son’s age. Why was he calling me miss as if the roles were reversed and he were an older man speaking to a young lady? I had just waited 45 minutes in …
I started a post a year and a half ago. A year and a half! A year and a half! I finally logged into this infernal blog monster today and discovered I had started this post and never finished it and didn’t even bother to worry about it. Poor, abandoned words — ideas that don’t …
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Another flashback to high school: me and a group of friends listening to music. Chris P. was a huge Police fan, and he asked, “So, in ‘Don’t Stand So Close to Me’ what’s the book by Nabakov?” No one knew. We weren’t into asking our English teacher, who I am sure would have known, and …