1. Last month I reported being on the gum diet, how I picked up an old habit of chewing and snapping and getting a general jaw workout whenever I felt snacking. 2. But my bubble has burst: Not only have I not lost any weight, I just remembered why I quit chewing gum in the […]
Flirty moon with a crescent grin I thought I saw it wink 4/28/09
1. Screen Saver 2. Eye Opener 3. Attention Seeking Grandmother Photos: 1. At the Blacksburg Duck Pond. 2. Tulip in my yard. 3. Sunday’s Chateau Morrisette Winery Open House with Bryce and his mom and dad. The spare lips are also a kazoo and not the only thing I tried to get Bryce’s attention. See […]
The Coming Together of Cultures in Floyd Post notes: The above is a photo of postcards in a sale rack at a local Floyd coffeehouse. It was published in The Floyd Press “Know Your County” newspaper insert HERE.
The following was published in the Spring/Summer issue of The Compass, a Floyd visitor’s guide. “In Floyd the anachronism of buying things locally is not some progressive trend but rather the continuation of rural tradition.” ~ Haden Polseno-Hensley, Vennue magazine Red balloons marked the dirt driveway from the Blue Ridge Parkway to the pottery studios […]
I write because it’s the way I synthesize what I’m learning at the time. I write because I hate to lose things and writing them down is a way not to lose them. I write because on a good day, my pen is like a dowsing stick that finds a well of meaning I can […]
1. After 183 Thirteen Thursday’s I find myself wondering if there will ever come a Thursday when I have nothing left to say. 2. I also worry about the size of my blog. After four years of archives, I wonder how big can a blog get? 3. When I first started blogging I wrote this: […]
Liz Stucki is a multi-medium artist and Wise Woman of Mama Lizardo’s fame (a former restaurant in Floyd). She draws, has made clocks and fairy houses, writes poetry, and is such a good cookie baker that I don’t waste my time on cookies unless they’ve been made by Liz. Liz’s exhibit (pictured above) at the […]
After my father died that winter I let an orange in the fruit bowl go bad I was curious to watch and hold it as it decomposed I expected it to rot spread its blight attract fat flies But it only dried into a hardened sunken shell It lives still in the corner of my […]
One might have thought that April’s Spoken Word would bring seasonal poems about spring, Earth Day, or even taxes. But what we got included a letter from Julius Caesar, some frolicking ferrets, a dead orange, and an adaptation of The Raven involving an appendectomy (quote the surgeon nevermore). Although, Neva Brown did return to the […]
1.Maestro of Play HERE. 2. Sound Check 3. If the Hat Fits Wear It 4. You Can Make a Flower This Pretty, Click HERE.
1. Earth Day in Floyd has a blog. Read all about it HERE. 2. Another new blog in my blogsphere: My Asheville potter son Josh is following in his mother’s footsteps as a documenter. He just started his own (collectively written) blog for the Carolina Kiln Build, an immersion onsite workshop for building two new […]
