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Joy Frank-Collins

Watching Karma

About Me

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I am a writer of words, a lover of books, a dreamer who finds poetry on the radio.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/11/2007
Band Members: Looking for great co-writers and interesting people in general
Influences: Tom T. Hall, Willie Nelson, my dad, Pat Green, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Randy Rogers, Bruce Springsteen, Cody Canada, Del McCoury, Marv Green, James Joyce, Dierks Bentley, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Radney Foster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Trent Willmon, Sylvia Plath, U2, William Shakespeare, Wade Bowen, Jim Croce, Dylan Thomas, Southside Johnny, Paul Muldoon, Sheryl Crow, Mark Twain, Robert Earl Keen, Van Morrison, Natalie Merchant, Eddie Vedder, Roddy Doyle, Billy Pilgrim, Rodney Crowell, Tennessee Williams, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, T.S. Eliot
Sounds Like: You tell me...

What musicians do when they're bored...

If I had gone to this show - I could have died the next day...

Check out The Tricky Hoedown 2007!
Record Label: Nope
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Just Look out the Window

Just like a waterlogged Bible Forgotten on the dashboard of a truck I used to think I was blessed Now I know I just get by on luck I was driving through Parkersburg, WV a couple of weeks ago and ...
Posted by Joy Frank-Collins on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:58:00 PST

Sad Country Song Songwriter

I must say that I usually always get a chuckle when I hear a Bud Light Real Men of Genius radio ad, but this one takes the cake! Check it out!!! Says the star on his website: "Getting a 'real men of g...
Posted by Joy Frank-Collins on Wed, 07 May 2008 07:18:00 PST

Huh?

So these random things keep happening to me. I'm walking down the street last Friday, several people were also walking in the same direction as I.  It's not like it was a crowded sidewalk or anyt...
Posted by Joy Frank-Collins on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:35:00 PST

Wrong Number

I admit it, I am so not cool.  I called the number that has been nagging me for days.  Turns out, it was for my husband.  Boy, if that ain't destiny kicking me in the teeth, I don'...
Posted by Joy Frank-Collins on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:20:00 PST

Destiny Calling?

I spend my life with my mobile.  In the car, it rides in a cupholder, displaced only by coffee and the occasional ride in the backpack front pocket if I know I'm running REAL late and fear I'll f...
Posted by Joy Frank-Collins on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:37:00 PST

5-7-5

The hopping frog feels the pleasure of weightlessness. Joy in a moment.   The foolish otter finds bliss among his playmates. Frogs find Zen alone   A frog rests in mud yearning deep for summ...
Posted by Joy Frank-Collins on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:36:00 PST

One Small Step for Woman, One Giant Leap for Armadilly-kind

I found out today that a story that I wrote about the intertwined lives of a struggling musician and an armadillo won the Margaret Ward Martin Prize at Marietta College - which is "awarded annually to...
Posted by Joy Frank-Collins on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:42:00 PST

Breast Cancer 3-Day

  I’ve just done what feels like the craziest and yet the most exciting things ever.  No, I’m not pregnant again, I’m planning on walking with E in the Breast Cancer 3-Day ...
Posted by Joy Frank-Collins on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:09:00 PST

Thinking Can Be Dangerous

As I sit inside, hunkered down with a Level 2 Snow Emergency outside and a chest full of snot, I've been thinking about a few things: * When do people make the transistion from loving s...
Posted by Joy Frank-Collins on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:42:00 PST

Second to Last

For the next seven weeks I officially have but three roles - Marketing Communications Firm Owner, Wife and Mother.  Okay - aunt, sister, daughter, friend, blah blah blah notwithstanding - but the...
Posted by Joy Frank-Collins on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:43:00 PST