Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay A common misconception about the miracle of cooking the perfect noodle is that the gas flame must be banked to the perfect point between the water boiling and the water boiling over. Although it is true that keeping the water just boiling makes for a tender noodle, the ultimate…
dVerse — Ghazal — Reason to Believe
Routine Heartbreak by Ina Mar (2009) Reason to Believe When I look into your eyes and see love’s gentle grace, I don’t want to believe your eyes deceive; they do, and I don’t. As your snug embrace holds me, feeling safe and enraptured, I want to believe it’s love, not just convenience, but…
Coloring Club Plus — 5/27/19
Today is another cut from Sting’s, “Dream of the Blue Turtles.” Read yesterday’s post which gives more information about the album here. Even though the song is about the cold war with Russia in the 1980’s, the scope is much wider. When we fight wars, do our enemies love their children? The innocent children always…
Cock a Doodle Do Do Do Do
Image by klimkin from Pixabay In 1973, Charles was the star basketball player for the University of Wyoming’s NBAA #1 rated Laramie Mountain Lions. Playing forward on and off the court, Charles’ colorful actions around town kept him on Section 1, page 1 of the town’s newspaper, The Laramie Return Serve. Charles’ latest exploits involved…
Sunday Doodads
It’s another day in paradise. Things have greened up like you wouldn’t believe. How flora and fauna can go from dormant and colorless to bursting with life of every hue is a miracle most appreciated this year. In 5 days, I will have been retired a year. Maybe it is because the days have not…
Coloring Club Plus — 5/26/19
The “P” coloring today is for Poppies. I colored it for poppies. The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the first solo album by English musician Sting, released in the United States on 1 June 1985. The album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart. It reached number two on the Billboard 200. In…
#SLS — Pearl Jam — Crazy Mary
Jim Adams is the illustrious and ever gracious host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: Awesome, bitchin’, boss, copacetic, crazy, excellent, fabulous, hunky dory, keen, neat, phat, righteous, slamin’, slick, spiffy, sweet, wicked, uptight and outta sight are all ways of saying Cool/Groovy/Hip/Nifty/Radical/Swell which is our prompt for this week. Here are the “rules”:…
Tao-Talk 