Convo with granddaughterHer: gramma your arm flaps are funnyMe, wiggling them: yes, they are!Her: did you know there are 3 kinds of bats (tells me what they are)Me: where did you learn that?Her: I don’t know.Me: Do you think gramma can fly with her arm flaps?Her, laughing: no, grammaMe: how about gliding like a flying…
Category: 2026 Poetry Postcard Fest
POPO 2026 Day 2
Tomato plants have neverbeen so tall wide healthycovered with blossomsBut where are the beesto fruitify them? Too manypossible desert culprits;maybe collaborators in crimeof pesticide, disease, drought?Pollinators are our canariesin the gardening mine.
POPO 2026 Day 1
Hello Everyone! Today begins my sharing of postcards and poems sent to people on my list for the annual Poetry Postcard Festival I’ve been participating in since 2021. Kerfe got me started back then and I have fallen in love with the experience. We get a list of 31 names and between July 4 and…
#FFF 69 Doodads (scheduled to post at 9 this morning but didn’t)
It’s been a pretty low-key week so far. On Tuesday, we went to Red Robin and then the bounce house in Grand Rapids, staying inside because of the heat. The following image was on the wall at Red Robin that was so compelling to me that I had to share it with you. I went…
