April 1, 2011 – Page 2

Apr 01 2011

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn

Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

Strongest minds are often those of whom the noisy world hears last.

–William Wordsworth

Drips 2

Apr 01 2011

Gha!

By RiaD

Sea turtles’ migration mystery is ‘solved’

Apr 01 2011

My Little Town 20110331: Etta and Roy Chandler

By Translator in Teaching

Those of you that read this irregular series know that I am from Hackett, Arkansas, just a mile of so from the Oklahoma border, and just about 10 miles south of the Arkansas River. It was a redneck sort of place, and just zoom onto my previous posts to understand a bit about it.

I never write about living people except with their express permission, so this installment is about two long dead denizens of Hackett.

Mr. and Mrs. Chandler were old, even by my grandmum’s standards when I first met them. They rented that little house that my grandmum owned just to the south of her place. They moved in around, I guess, 1965 or 1966, give or take a year. Things were much different then.

Apr 01 2011

Lightbulbs?

By Edger

This is how it develops…

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I’m going to be near the mailbox, when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only 1 check left.

My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.