No one comes. No one calls. The constant motion of September wind sounds like ocean surf. It flattens the tops of trees like women’s hair blown back from driving in a car with the top down. It pushes the clouds across the sky. They rush like a river intent on downstream. The sun blinks as […]
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on September 11, 2008. The Jessie Peterman Memorial Library celebrated its new Sunday hours with cookies and punch and an afternoon of entertainment in the library’s new Community Room. A Junior Jamboree was performed by students of the Floyd Music School. Floyd Music School founder and […]
In high school, I flunked the cartwheel test and so never became a cheerleader. I wasn’t as disappointed about not making the team as my older sister Kathy was when she didn’t make it two years before me. Dancing at the Surf Ballroom on weekends and marching in the CYO Drill Team filled the gap […]
I’ve always respected John McCain. Although I understand that campaigning candidates tend to adapt their talking points to please their base of support, my respect for McCain wavered as he flip flopped on issues during the presidential nomination campaign. I don’t agree with McCain on many issues, but I was pleased to see at the […]
1. I like to keep at least one toy in my pocketbook. For some reason it makes me feel prepared. 2. Working my laptop touch pad is like eating noodles with chopsticks. I’d rather use a fork and mouse. 3. I feel like THIS more and more often. It’s worth a whole listen. 4. I […]
Purple haze all in my brain Lately things just don’t seem the same Actin funny, but I don’t know why scuse me while I kiss the sky Purple haze all around Don’t know if I’m comin’ up or down Am I happy or in misery? What ever it is, that girl put a spell on […]
1. Downtown Upkeep 2. Flood of Memories 3. Light at the End of the Tunnel Post notes: I got some pictures developed yesterday and thought these three somehow went together, visually and in a past, present, future sort of way. 1. Farmer’s Supply in Floyd recently got a touch up. 2. Nantasket Beach at sunset […]
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on August 28, 2008 and is a follow-up to a previous story HERE. “You can pull up the weeds but if you don’t get the root, they’ll come back,” Abraham Cherrix recently told a Medical Ethics class at the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic on […]
I usually like to play Scrabble between 12 and 2:00 p.m. By noon I’m awake enough and after 2:00 I start getting tired. But this Scrabble game was scheduled for 10:30 because Rosemary had an appointment to get her haircut at 12:30. “So you can take advantage of my sleepy state and Rosemary’s long hair,” […]
Although John McCain has voted with President Bush 90% of the time, it’s his Vice-Presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, who is most like Bush. You would think that after eight years of enduring the most unpopular president in modern times, Americans would balk at an anti-science candidate who calls the war in Iraq “a task […]
1. I watched PBS’s full coverage of the Democratic National Convention like others watched the Olympics (which I didn’t). 2. I don’t watch sports either, but watched Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder, and Michael McDonald sing at the DNC like others watch the Super Bowl at halftime. 3. I’m a registered Independent, fiscally conservative, who votes […]
1. Hollyhocks and Bees 2. A Birthday Tea 3. A Rainy Day Pair 4. A Window of Opportunity
