This is what I did last weekend. The story (posted below) that resulted from the day appeared in The Floyd Press yesterday, November 15, 2007. Last Spring Floyd County Historical Society archivist, Kathleen Ingoldsby, and Joe Klein, an integrative education advocate, traveled to Bland County to learn about Place Based Education from John Dobson, a […]
1. The Grief Bond: The last time I played Scrabble with Mara (shown in the photo) we were setting up the board when she pulled out an old scorecard out of the box from a game I had won and handed it to me, thinking I would want to save it. “What, do you want […]
The following was passed on to me by Smiler. I considered just copying and pasting her answers because so many of them sounded so much like me. But I figured that would be cheating. Here’s what I came up with. Name six guilty pleasures no one would suspect you of having: 1. Sunbathing without sunscreen […]
Splash! Who put that there? cracked up sunny side-up on a blue-tone glass sky plate ~ Colleen Redman
When I’m searching for something to blog about and I’m feeling uninspired, I’m like a doctor with a hammer trying to get a reflex. When I finally land on an idea that kicks, I know I’ve hit the right one. ~ Colleen When I first started writing I didn’t know that I was a […]
It’s a yearly class on grief and loss for counseling students, taught by Radford University Professor Alan Forrest. The curriculum includes reading Tuesdays with Morrie and The Jim and Dan Stories, the book I wrote about losing my two brothers a month apart in 2001. The students, usually about twenty or so, watch a video […]
1. Talking to my blog friend Smiler about why I haven’t joined the NaNoWriMo writing project, in which bloggers write a novel in thirty days, posting an entry each day, I said: I write so much already that I do it in my sleep, and then there’s the part of me that still considers writing […]
1. Day-glo 2. The Shortcut 3. The Up-date 4. The Leftovers Post notes: click on comments (below) for further explanations on these photos. For more photos and captions go HERE and scroll down.
My Asheville Potter son, Josh, has a sandwich named after him at the Klingman Ave Café near the Clay Space Studio where he makes pots. I found this out when I called him this past weekend to catch up. “What are you doing?” I asked. “I was just about to walk over to the café […]
I climb the familiar fence, which I think of as a threshold into the Garden of Eden, and land on the ground with a thud, announcing my presence. Faraway cows are keening. Buzzards are circling in the sky. I pick up a sturdy stick for walking, and to fend off cows if they bother me. […]
1. Who dropped the red paint? 2. A red-blooded leaf. 3. Bad dye job. 4. Not fully committed.
Gold rush in late afternoon a black crow announces The sun tips its pool on a chatter of trees wading in flooded light A fleet of leaves like paper canoes are whisked upstream by whining wind Whispered secrets shushed away in the hurry of days growing shorter ~ Colleen Redman 11/1/07 Post note: For more […]
