Modern Fairy Tales |
Denise's very funny Red Riding Hood blog yesterday sent me in search of a version I wrote a few years ago when I was baby sitting for a friend and decided the Brothers Grimm stories needed a little up...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:46:00 GMT |
This Place Is A Zoo |
As a child each visit to a zoo was a wonder-filled event for me. Birds and lions and tigers were in cages, elephants might have a chain around one leg, some times a chimpanzee at the Fort Worth zoo wa...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 21:10:00 GMT |
Time to Spring Forward |
It is time, once again to try to save time in a bottle. Springing Forward and Falling Back with Daylight Saving TimeWhen did we become such a time obsessive culture with clocks in every room and wat...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT |
Songwriter Ben Bedford |
Ben Bedford's lyrics are drawn from the landscape of America, but unlike writers who present a story from an observer's perspective, Bedford'ssongs are often told from the inside looking out, taking t...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:22:00 GMT |
Progress |
There is a road named Cheek Sparger. Twenty five years ago it was a country lane bordered by trees and fields and a few farm houses.
Now there is a shopping center at one end, mill...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:20:00 GMT |
Celebrating Mickey Newbury in Austin this weekend |
I'm heading to Austin this weekend for a few days of non-stop music and visiting with friends at the annual Mickey Newbury gathering.
C W Colt plans to broadcast the music on t...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:19:00 GMT |
Bill |
A good friend died this past Sunday.
Bill was 71. For more than 40 of those years he and my husband worked together and hunted and fished together and when they retir...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:54:00 GMT |
Who is Leading |
Life
You seem to lead an interesting life
a stranger said with a sigh
I don't think I'm the one who's leading
in honesty I did reply
Life is leading me, my good man
I only ...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 12:21:00 GMT |
A poem from the past |
Celebrating Spring
.
If I could I would gather
this day and put it
in a Fed Ex package and send it
to all my friends around the worldstorms brought rain in abundancetoday blue sky stretch...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:39:00 GMT |
Thunder |
A cresendo of kettle drums hover overhead threatening
windows shudder in response
sending little ones in search of comforting arms
it is only noise, I say,
...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:06:00 GMT |
