Today's subject line is from Bachelor's "Stay in the Car," which has been earworming me since I heard it on WXNP earlier this week.

Dance recommendation: Anna Morrissey's All Together Alone, a modern take on "Ebben? ne andrò lontana," which I've adored since playing viola for it eons ago. Up until May 29. Warning for light-sensitives: there is some ( Read more... )

The subject line's from Adrian Mitchell's "After the Third Election of Thatcher," which continues:

. . . and climb on my horse and ride away
And if I were Wales I would turn my back
And climb on my horse and ride away . . .

This is in the collection Blue Coffee: Poems, 1985 - 1996, which has this opposite the table of contents:

EDUCATIONAL HEALTH ( Read more... )

Saturday had a number of "I am the daughter of my ancestors" moments -- those instances where being extra wasn't in the game plan, but putting the kitchen trash and recycling bins (and a couple of plastic hampers as well) on the driveway to get a free pre-scrubbing soak in the rain, that happened. There was also vacuuming the floor of the trash ( Read more... )

Today is crowded with overlapping possibilities. Newark Museum's virtual Carnival Celebration runs all day, with the samba/capoeira session at the same time as Iowa's English country dance gathering. Says You's Kisses and Quips show was on my calendar for a long time, but my church's cabaret for Habitat for Humanity streams at the same time. Plus, ( Read more... )

We have a huge pit in our back yard that used to contain the root ball of a tree, before the March tornado knocked the tree over:


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The subject line, which I typed into this window two days ago, is from Raymond Carver's "Looking for Work." It incurred a sudden jones for pan-fried fish, which I hadn't planned on cooking, and the canned tuna in the pantry wasn't going to address that, nor the tofu-fish cakes in the freezer, and moaning about bar-crowding putzes wasn't going to ( Read more... )

Hello to y'all and to 2020. Today's subject line refers to the Great Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop, a fine collaboration between Canada and the United States mentioned in a public radio roundup of Things Dropped yesterday ( Read more... )

Today's subject line comes from the dude sassin' me as we crossed paths on my way to the Y ( Read more... )

Today's subject line is from Sandra Beasley's Vocation.


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What greeted me when I got home today:


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