Kelly Bennett's Blog

?$&*#@! No, that’s not swearing. It’s punctuation and symbols that tell us something. Grammar!

Are you’re a fan of the oxford comma, semi-colo...

When I was in school, a requirement for passing Government was being able to recite the Preamble to the Constitution . As we celebrate the Country’s 250th, it’s worth revisiting.

Tell me all about it…

Relax, this is not an invitation to visit/revisit the analyst’s couch. But, yes, we are goi...

I’m not Nick, nor am I Norah, but my entire life is an Infinite Playlist. Song, or snippets of song, spring to mind willy-nilly. All it takes is a word, or feeling, or a beat, and the piano roll in my head begins whirling.

Today it was the news…(isn’t it always???). Gratefully, thankfully, I was saved by Burt Bacharach! Sing it Dionne . . .

What the world need now is love, sweet love, it’s the only thing that there’s just too little of . . .

The weather forecast has been threatening…promising…rain for two weeks now. We need it or all of our newly planted gardens are shriveling. That’s how the garden grows here in the East (this years at least) we’ve gone from chilly, soggy, weird Spring to hot-hot-hot (for us). Pretending we’re Meteorologists, we search the skies, examining every cloud…

So far, no meatballs . . .

Obviously, the weather forecasters have gotten it wrong. Let’s see if we can do better!

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Baby, You and Me . . .

Keep tapping those tootsies as we wind up for a real riddler of a prompt:

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Icon! Diva! Pop Idol!…personal role model Cher is 80! (Her birthday was May 20, 1946.) All my life, she has been there—loud, alive, unappologetic! And dang, at 80 still rockin’!

Add to that: I didn’t have a clear idea of what this week’s 7-minute challenge should be so I did what I often do when I need inspiration, or a laugh, or to shake my head at some of the silly, fun, delightful…. odd ideas humans dream up to use as excuses for holidays. I consulted the National Day Calendar.

Helpful hint: you can search subjects or dates or categories willy-nilly and someone somewhere will have created ...

It’s Spring….it’s supposed to be, that is. Spring seems a fickle friend this year. One moment it’s bright, sunny, glorious—get out in the garden and dig!—the next it’s cloudy and cold. My seedlings are shivering.

With regards to weather, Will Rogers famously said, “Give it, time, it will change.”

The trouble is, that the lack of sunny skies has given me a case of the gloomies. (Maybe you too?) to Combat it, I’m conjuring “Joy Germs.”