February 2012
3 posts
“I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.”
– Steven Wright
“I am a drinker with writing problems.”
– Brendan Behan
January 2012
5 posts
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
– Tennessee Williams
“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I...”
– Anne Rice
“Some days I think life would be a whole lot more fun if I just knew how to make...”
– StoryPeople
“I have seen the others and I have discovered that this fight is not worth...”
– Dispatch, “The General”
“I can remember walking down the street, saying my name over & over, until...”
– StoryPeople
November 2011
2 posts
“It’s where the rednecks and real people live.”
– truck driver about where he’s from in Oregon
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the...”
– Wall sign
October 2011
1 post
“My favorite time of day is just at dark when all thoughts of what must be done...”
– StoryPeople
September 2011
3 posts
“You’re not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said...”
– StoryPeople
Sound Connection
dearoldlove:
I had to change my ringtone, because I always connected the sound to you.
Yup.
“There was a whole world here once, she said, but some of the smaller parts left...”
– StoryPeople
August 2011
3 posts
“carries a lot of suitcases but all of them are empty because she’s...”
– Veteran Traveler, by StoryPeople
hearty
dearoldlove:
I’m afraid you’ll always be in my heart, even if you aren’t in my arms.
“this is a machine that’s supposed to make people good & true &...”
– Broken Down, by StoryPeople
July 2011
2 posts
“Is convinced there’s something we can learn from the animals, but so far...”
– SP, SOTD
June 2011
1 post
The Summer Day
By Mary Oliver
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her...
May 2011
3 posts
“Hey, it’s 10:06! … and OU still sucks.”
– Meredith
“There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same...”
– StoryPeople
“Chewing is overrated.”
– awesome marquee at Smoothie King
April 2011
2 posts
“Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I’ve got...”
– Big Plans, by StoryPeople
“:-)
Love Dad”
– one of the best e-mails I have received in a long while, subject line: Manana Banana
March 2011
1 post
“Those Texas girls are somethin’ else.”
– Tim McGraw, 3/7/11, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
February 2011
5 posts
“If you can be a great principal, if you can be a great teacher, if that’s...”
– Dave Levin, Feb. 12 - Washington D.C.
“People always say ‘you run like a robot.’ And then I say, ‘OK,...”
– one of our runners at Saturday’s track meet
“When we stand up, we must know that we are standing up for everybody. Each of us...”
– Maya Angelou
“How we read works of literature can depend as much on who we are and where we...”
– Jonathan Yardley
“The beauty of friendship is that it’s a celebration, not of what we do,...”
– Harvey L. Rich, M.D.
January 2011
3 posts
“Are you going to start dressing alike now?”
– Mom, after the arrival of zygosity test results confirming my sister and me identical twins
“Can I touch your curl?”
– one my seventh grade students (who later said she named the curl Kimbo, after herself)
“I’m a good jumper, he said, but I’m not so good at landing. Maybe...”
– Good Jumper, StoryPeople
December 2010
1 post
August 2010
2 posts
“If I was a spider princess, she said, I would spin webs the color of sky &...”
– Spider Princess, by StoryPeople
raise the bar high
Fifteen minutes left to throw me together For mister right now, not mister forever Don’t know why I even try when I know how it ends Looking like another “maybe we could be friends” I’ve been leaving it up to fate It’s my life so it’s mine to make I ain’t settling for just getting by I’ve had enough so so for the rest of my life Tired of shooting...
July 2010
4 posts
The Cubbies win! (And Mer sees a baby she wants to...
“I’d marry you if you could dance, that’s what I said, cause where...”
– “Dance”
“I carry you with me into the world,
into the smell of rain”
– Living Memory, SP
June 2010
1 post
“We need a letter that’s like i & u together for when we’re doing...”
– StoryPeople
April 2010
4 posts
“Wish for your deepest desires, she said & when I asked if they’d come...”
– Deepest Desires, SP
light a way
The morning’s here, and we’re still caught up in the night. The sky was clear, and everything felt right. Our time is short, but I’m sure I’ll see you soon. We’ll take another walk along the bridge, and underneath the moon. What a find, If I could I’d hit rewind and replay. All the moments that I wished, I could’ve called you mine. And tonight, I pray. Light a way, on my love. Light a way,...
“I will always remember the day the sun shone dark on your hair & I forgot...”
– No More Secret, by StoryPeople
“Now I know why people worship, carry around magic emblems, wake up talking...”
– William Stafford
March 2010
1 post
“If I ran the world, he told me, I’d pretty much leave it alone”
– Benign Neglect, by StoryPeople
February 2010
9 posts
“This holds all the stuff you haven’t been listening to & when the top...”
– Day Job, by StoryPeople
“I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in...”
– Just Friends, by StoryPeople
“Didn’t his mom ever tell him not to touch things that aren’t yours?”
– a student at the part in Armageddon when Steve Buschemi’s character goes crazy with the machine gun