Have you ever experienced this in the bedroom before?
Pretty cool feeling isn't it?
It was, oh, about 10 years ago for me. Now I always do it in bed.

What the son said to the mother who just got wireless internet. :)

;)

Not a value of our society anymore, and too bad.  I remember loving my little hometown and wondering why the people around me weren't ecstatic in it.

Overheard in the break room.

It's amazing how they keep coming up with actors that look like Roosevelt and Churchill.

They say pets grow to be like their owners.
It must be true.
Penny the cat hates the vacuum cleaner and the dishwasher as much as I do.

 And she doesn't go near the washing machine!

Smart pet!

RC’S Fresh Vegetables and Fruit

I turn right at RC’s onto a small, paved road that immediately curves left into some tall dense pines and within fifty yards becomes a gravel track which is overlooked by the indulgent forest on the left and waved at by tall grass in a meadow about sixty feet below on the right; this part of the ride is precarious and I’m jumpy having cracked two windshields traveling the road before but soon enough, I’m back in the shadow of the forest where occasionally a rabbit will dare me to speed or an owl will hoot and it’s always a surprise when a right turn brings me quickly out of the shadow and onto the dirt track that bisects a cornfield, which is when my foot urges the accelerator all on its own and the car presses fast through the tight passage, filling the cabin with a green smell until, five minutes later I pull to a crunching halt under the pecan tree and see them sitting on the porch where he’s petting a red hound and she’s shelling beans for my dinner.

Lies we tell our lovers

Naturally, being a poet, I hate cards. That is, unless I make them myself. BUT I get one card every year that I save, along with the envelope. All the rest go in the bin. It's the card I get from He-who-must-be-obeyed. He always adds something to the sentiment; something like "in the beginning, now and in the future" or some other lovie-dovie thing. What is it the kids say? LOL! But it's the envelope I look forward to. For years he has drawn a row of x's along the flap which he licks - every inch of it. Such a pain in the ass to open them. He does it every year. On the way back from our recent road trip, he pulled the most recent anniversary card out of his glove box (nearly running off the road in the process - what? He couldn't ask me to get it? Ehh - he opens doors for me, too.) and I opened it. I said off-handedly - I love the x's on the flap. It's my favorite part of the card. He said "there's 36 of 'em." 

I was taken aback but I didn't let him know. I just giggled and said "I know." But I didn't know. I never realized he actually matched the number of x's to our years. I turned to the passenger window and blinked.  He started singing "Amarillo by morning" - in that fake bass of his. I stopped crying and giggled into year 37.

lovely

"Memory is like - glitter on skin," she said. "Most of the time it's invisible and every now and then there is a brilliant flash."

The front porch, a 25 x 12 expanse of cement, catch-all for flowerpots and leaves and wasp's nests, is now screened in and a room has emerged with all the appeal of my summer childhood. I can't wait for the wooden screen door to begin to squeak.

Arisen, shadowed between
moon and firelight
he listens.
Dissonant insects complain;
in the distance a limb breaks.
He returns to her bare arms.
When she whispers;
insects listen.

Man vs. Woman #1

There's a huge mushroom in the front yard.
 
                                                                 OK. I'll run over it with the lawn mower.
 
No! Then the spores will be everywhere and
we'll be covered up with big mushrooms!
 
                                                                OK. I'll run over them with the lawn mower.

Man vs. Woman #2

Look! There's that Mountain Man BBQ place
It's supposed to be the best around here! Want to eat?
 
                                                                      That place looks filthy!
                                                                      Sometime you'll have to eat there
                                                                                                                         without me.
 
Mountain Man BBQ was torn down three weeks later