My Eyes are Happy! Quotables from Peeps, 4:30 a.m. Version
Once quotable sayings from my peeps jump into my verbal repertoire, they hunker down to stay for good. Some are profound, some are practical, some are playful, but they’re all memorable.
Category: Words
The Wonderfuls (The People You Meet Along the Way)
Meet a new addition to my list of The Wonderfuls, Jon the Storyteller, who will be a guest blogger on Glover Gardens.
What the Car Saw: London Taxi Version (People on Phones)
Observations from a taxi window in London. Hop in with me and share the journey of a sad discovery.
Water, Wind and Land: Metaphors for a Geophysicist (remembrance for Grandpa on his 98th birthday)
Reconstructing Grandpa in the museum of my heart – a poem in memory of an amazing man, Thomas Carlyle Holt.
My Brother’s Suicide: Out of the Darkness and Into the Light
I have never said this in a public forum: my brother’s untimely death four years ago was a suicide. Hear my plea: if you’re hurting, please tell someone.
you, amazing you / footprints on our heart-sands (another poem for Dad from a grateful daughter)
a free verse remembrance for an amazing man
Haiku: Mindfulness on the Beach
Image poetry: girl on the beach in repose knows, she simply knows Copyright 2017, Glover Gardens Cookbook
Haiku Mind: Book Review in Haiku
My review of Haiku Mind: what i thought i knew how to view and feel and say i knew not at all If you are into haiku, this book is for you. It is a book of haiku while at the same time being a […]
The Chili Bee and Round Top, Texas – A Little Tale of Community, Chili and Small-Town Magic
A tale of a chili cook-off fundraiser in a tiny Texas town, two friends, five gallons of spilled chili, dozens of kind people and a chance meeting with the governor.
Haiku: Beckoning Winter Sky
I am in love with our little cabin in central Colorado. “Little House in the Rockies” inspires me to create recipes, snap photos, write essays, poems and haiku, birdwatch…in general, to revel in nature and absorb its beauty and regenerative spirit. Here’s one from a […]
Cat Haiku, and Pictures, Too
Cat haiku and pictures, because the world doesn’t have enough. So I give you: Godfrey in repose.
Haiku for Autumn in Southeast Texas: October’s Party
Haiku about autumn in Southeast Texas – the flowers are still blooming although the leaves are falling.
Haiku: Departure
A haiku about that wonderful feeling of expectation and adventure when you travel by air.
Haiku: Christie’s Sour Cream Pound Cake
My neighbor is a smart and funny Southern woman, a successful writer of romantic and teen fiction, a devoted wife, mother and friend, and a wonderful hostess. She also makes the best pound cake I’ve ever eaten. Christie recently served her homemade sour cream pound cake at […]
Hospital Food: Why is it Sooooo Bad???
Why, why, why is hospital food sooooo bad??? Why do they feed patients high-fat/high-sugar dishes?
