Greetings from Artesia, folk art on the roadside in southeastern NM town of Artesia, November 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. folks in artesia so friendly they’ll fall over to lend you a hand Postscript: Artesia, NM, a town named for the Artesian wells found at the turn of the 20th century, [...]
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greetings from artesia haiku
Posted in Art, Culture, Haiku, Laughing, Life, On the Road, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Topic Writing, Travel, Vehicles, Wake Up, Writing Practices, tagged Artesia NM, folk art, On the Road, one person's junk is another's treasure, public art, road trips, roadside art, Roadside Attractions, Roadside Photos, roadside sculpture, small towns, turning junk into art on February 27, 2009 | 10 Comments »
PRACTICE – Roadside Attractions – 15min
Posted in Culture, Growing Older, Life, Nature, On the Road, Place, Practice, Things That Fly, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged borders, Garnet Ghost Town, ghost towns, ghosts of the past, Libby, mining towns, Missoula, Montana, pileated woodpeckers, Roadside Attractions, trees on February 27, 2009 | 9 Comments »
What I remember is the large sombrero, South of the Border. The scraggly pines, sweaty heat. A few hundred people get married there every year, the border between South and North Carolina. You can drive through his shoes, lanky legs that stretch up 100 feet. What I remember is Garnet, a western ghost town. Abandoned. [...]
PRACTICE: Roadside Attractions — 15 min
Posted in Culture, Family, Life, On the Road, Personal, Place, Practice, Topic Writing, Travel, Vehicles, Writing Practices, tagged air conditioner fights, Carlsbad Caverns, Carlsbad Caverns National Monument, On the Road, road trips, Roadside Attractions, Roswell, Stuckey's, UFO Museum, White City, Wigwam Motel on February 27, 2009 | 11 Comments »
It’s warm outside, the kind of day I can imagine getting into a car, our bags packed in the back, and setting out on the road. A bit of a breeze in the air, wind is never fun when you’re driving the highway, but the temperature’s just right. Jim and I get into air-conditioner fights [...]
But My Chicken Was Cold-Blooded–It Killed Grubs At Random
Posted in Animals & Critters, Culture, Family, Food, Laughing, Personal, Photography, Seasons, Spirituality, tagged Ash Wednesday, Ash Wednesday foods, Can I eat chicken on Ash Wednesday?, Catholic Church, Catholics eating fish, do fish have sins?, fasting and abstinence, fish on Ash Wednesday, frozen fish sticks, holy days, Lent on February 25, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Chickens at Market, four chickens for sale in the open air market of Hoi An, Vietnam, December 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. It just dawned on me that Jim thawed a whole chicken to roast for dinner tonight, which means we’ll being eating meat on Ash Wednesday. Not that I observe [...]
And The Oscar Goes To…
Posted in Art, Dreams, Film / TV / Video, tagged 81st Annual Academy Awards, Academy Awards ceremony, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, celebrities, film, history of the Academy Awards, movie reviews, movies, past Oscar winners, Sally Fields 1985 Academy Awards speech, The Oscars on February 22, 2009 | 59 Comments »
I have to admit, I’m not a hard-core fan of the annual Academy Awards ceremony. Usually I haven’t had a chance to see most of the nominated films, plus I’m not into the Hollywood red carpet nor whose gown is the most stunning or the most sorry. And frankly, I get nervous watching an actor blubber [...]
the velveeta cheese of donuts haiku
Posted in Culture, Food, Haiku, Laughing, Photography, Poetry, Practice, tagged boxed donuts, childhood foods, chocolate covered donuts, comfort food, Entenmann's Donuts, food and culture, junk food, processed foods on February 22, 2009 | 24 Comments »
Entenmann’s Donuts, a box of oldie-but-goody chocolate-covered donuts our family recently enjoyed, photo © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. Entenmann’s Donuts with their plastic-like frosting are they real or fake? yum…plastic donuts are good, photo © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved Postscript: For those of you in Albuquerque, you can get Entenmann’s Donuts [...]
Sunrise On Taos Mountain (Reflections On Writing Retreats)
Posted in Bones, Dreams, Family, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Life, Love, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Silence, Skies, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged community as witness, gratitude for community, honoring those who came before us, living as artists & writers, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Natalie Goldberg, northern New Mexico, places writers call home, sit like the mountain, solidarity, Taos Mountain, Taos Writing Intensive, the practice of writing, writing community, writing retreats on February 21, 2009 | 31 Comments »
Sunrise On Taos Mountain, Taos, New Mexico, February 2007, photo © 2007-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. welcome to Mabel’s silent retreat in progress foot of Taos Mountain writers hone their craft sitting in community with nowhere to hide silence changes you in ways you have yet to know let monkey mind be A new [...]
WRITING TOPIC – ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS
Posted in Culture, Everyday Art, Laughing, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Travel, Writing Topics, tagged American history, Americana, Another Roadside Attraction, boots, Cadillac Ranch, Debra J. Seltzer, driving across America, giant Red Wing boots, giants, historical places, history of shoes, how cars jog the memory, Koontz Coffee Pot, Minnesota, Paul Bunyan, Red Wing, Red Wing boots, Roadside Architecture, Roadside Attractions, Roadside Photos, sense of place, sightseeing, the power of place, the ways cars changed America, World's Largest Shoe, writing about place on February 20, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Giant Red Wing Boot, Bay Point Park, Red Wing, Minnesota, August 2005, photo © 2005-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. We didn’t travel much when I was growing up. Maybe a weekend trip to the beach in Charleston or Savannah. Or taking a drive through the Great Smoky Mountains along winding roads of the Tennessee [...]
What’s Happened To The Corrales Bosque?
Posted in Animals & Critters, Bodies Of Water, Culture, Essay, Fotoblog, Love, Nature, Personal, Photography, Place, Seasons, Wake Up, tagged Corrales bosque, Corrales NM, cottonwood forest, fuel load reduction, humans & nature, Linda Weissinger Lupowitz, Nature, nature preserves, red Ravine Guests, Rio Grande, Rio Grande bosque, Rio Grande Valley, wildfire management, writing about nature on February 18, 2009 | 30 Comments »
By Linda Weissinger Lupowitz Our Preserve, a sign in the Corrales Bosque Preserve, which is part of the Rio Grande Bosque, photo © 2009 by Linda W. Lupowitz. All rights reserved. The Rio Grande supports a ribbon of green oasis along its length, from its beginnings in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, to its junction [...]
Hearts Hang In The Balance
Posted in Culture, Family, Gratitude, Haiku, Life, Love, Photography, Relationships, tagged Cupid, giving back, hearts, kinds of love, pay it forward, tell someone you love them, the power of love, Valentine's Day, Valentines on February 14, 2009 | 29 Comments »
Hanging By A Thread, Reflecting, Taos, New Mexico, February 2007, photo © 2007-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. how true Cupid’s aim? one arrow, a dozen hearts hang in the balance Note: Single, married, dating, abstaining, none of the above, there is always someone to love; someone who loves you. And so many more different kinds [...]
Mi Casa Es Su Casa (Hosting A Mexican Exchange Student)
Posted in Culture, Family, Place, Relationships, Travel, tagged being a host family, benefits of being a host family, exchange student homesickness, exchange student hosting, exchange student hosting tips, exchange students, foreign exchange student programs, mothering, mothers and daughters, parenting, study abroad, teen girls, US-Mexico student exchanges on February 5, 2009 | 34 Comments »
dee and me, detail from a Mother-Daughter mural that our Moms-Daughters group created. Last night Jim and I attended a meeting for families who will be hosting exchange students from Mexico City starting next week. Our oldest daughter’s school has a two-week exchange program with a bilingual school in Mexico’s capital, and we signed up to [...]
Wet Cement (It Only Takes A Second)
Posted in Everyday Art, Great Places To Write, Maps, Photography, Place, Poetry, Quotes, Seasons, tagged celebrate poetry, collaboration, community, Everyday Poems for City Sidewalk, Fitzgerald Theater, Marcus Young, Public Art Saint Paul, Saint Paul Public Works, Sidewalk Poetry, the power of poetry, Wet Cement, Zoë Jameson on February 3, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Wet Cement, part of the Everyday Poems for City Sidewalk project, Saint Paul, Minnesota, October 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Wet cement, Opportunity. It only takes a second To change this spot forever. Another poem from the streets of Everyday Poems for City Sidewalk. I wrote the first piece about the project [...]
Flabby Arms Are Genetic (And Other Facts Of Life I Need To Face)
Posted in Body, Dreams, Family, Growing Older, Laughing, Life, Personal, tagged bat wings, big ears and noses, Dowager's humps, earwax, female pattern baldness, flabby arms, jowls, plastic surgery, senile acne on February 2, 2009 | 21 Comments »
My best friend from graduate school is coming to New Mexico from her native Brazil week after next, and in honor of her visit—women in Brazil are notorious for their beauty, not to mention she’s married to a plastic surgeon—I’ve put together a list of bodily facts that I need to own up to on [...]
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