• life lately

    Feeling Fancy

    On Sunday I had plans to meet up with a friend I haven’t seen in a year or so. I walked into my living room, all ready to leave, and my daughter glanced up, stared, and told me I looked really fancy. I was wearing jeans, a nice shirt, and a little bit of makeup. I’ll leave it to your imagination what I have been wearing lately that makes jeans and a shirt look fancy. The sad thing is I felt a little bit fancy. This is what a global pandemic has done to me. I am home now after meeting my friend and chatting like mad for three hours…

  • poem for a thursday

    A Poem for a Thursday #96

    Photo by Kalon on Unsplash I have featured Tony Hoagland before here. I think I like his poetry because it creates such a clear mental picture of the scene he is describing. Maybe that is what I like about poetry in general. It is like a snapshot of an image or an emotion. She goes out to hang the windchime in her nightie and her work boots. It’s six-thirty in the morning and she’s standing on the plastic ice chest tiptoe to reach the crossbeam of the porch, windchime in her left hand, hammer in her right, the nail gripped tight between her teeth but nothing happens next because she’s trying to figure…