We finally made it to Gobble Cakes! That’s Blacksburg’s brand new cupcakery, and oh my god, y’all, it was all I could have hoped for. Cupcakes piled high with piped whipped frostings, elegant personal-sized confections on silver cake plates, ten flavors to choose from, and me standing there for fifteen minutes trying to decide between … Continue reading Gobble Cakes
It was 80 degrees yesterday, and you know how retail stores are. If it’s warmer than 75 degrees out, you can bet you’ll be shivering inside. I was fine until I ate lunch, when all my warm, cozy blood went to my stomach to participate in the digestive party and left the rest of my … Continue reading Staying in my sunbeam
Well, here it is, 6 am and I’m at my writing practice. I’m on my second cup of coffee and am nursing paper cuts from book jackets. I wonder who I’ll shelve today? I hope I get the fiction section. I feel like I’m among friends there. I started a new book last night, The … Continue reading In a bay window
hazel eyes like oak leaves and acorns: our daughter crisp breath and crunching, I rake piles prongs scrape, scour, scratch the earth’s back in October, birch leaves flutter – gold coins from the sky maples sway, dangling rubies in the sun with pink cheeks, a red nose, I comb earth’s grassy mane an oak leaf … Continue reading Haiku from the leaf pile
I was working the register at Barnes & Noble here in Christiansburg, Virginia the other day, and since it was dead, and since gift card season is about to begin, I browsed all the fancy card designs to pull samples to show customers. There are new ones out with snowmen, and winter scenes, as well … Continue reading The grandaddy of all gift cards
“RESEARCH OFFERS HOPE FOR THOSE SEEKING DURABLE BOOST IN HAPPINESS.” That’s the title of an article I clipped from the paper this summer. I don’t think I’ve ever clipped a newspaper article, but I saved this one. Because in this piece, I learned the secret of people who are able to sustain happiness after an … Continue reading Durable Happiness
Butterfly Mind 