~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on April 9, 2009 and HERE. “I call it ‘The New Math,’” said Harvest Moon store manager Katherine Chantal about the store’s “Healthy Snacks for Healthy Kids” display. “1+1=3. For every two snacks donated by customers, the Harvest Moon donates one more.” Healthy Snacks for […]
1. Reason to wear gloves in April: Stinging Nettles from my neighbor’s farm. 2. On the move fast food. Look what else Bryce can do HERE. 3. Rip Van Winkle slept here.
Tofu tempura, miso soup, maki rolls, and salad were on the Easter meal menu on the last day of the Teen Meditation Retreat this weekend at Earthsong Farm. Wolf (teen who couldn’t make the full retreat but is part of this community of young meditaters) and I got lost three times driving from Floyd to […]
Easter at my Nana’s House 1957: Me, Sherry, Kathy, Danny, Johnny, Jimmy (baby Joey was probably with my mom nursing), and Bobby and Tricia weren’t born yet. Happy Easter to all!
My house loves butter It glows with forsythia With 1000’s of lampshades dangling yellow Bright bulbs illuminate April
1. I have never typed LOL (except for just now), but did type LMAO once. It was when I wrote that talk show host Bonnie Hunt had a 13 on her coffee cup and my sister Sherry told me in a comment that it was really a B for her name. 2. Poets are the […]
A Fallen Star A Close Encounter Bug-eyed An Eye Opener
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on March 26, 2009. As the Old Church Gallery Quilter’s Guild membership has grown so has the size of their meeting locations. Formed in 1986 as a part of The Old Church Gallery, the quilters outgrew the gallery’s original Presbyterian Church location. They met at the […]
As a brain-based educator who developed an educational program on slavery, who speaks to her Avatar by way of meditation and facilitates group dialogue in communities, author Judy O’Brien has a stranger than fiction background. The spiritual journey she recounts in her autobiographical book “The Way of the Mystic” is compelling, but I was even […]
Loud gusts of wind on the Blue Ridge Parkway sound like breakers on the shore. They make blades of grass quiver and hikers hold on to their hats. Spread out on a picnic blanket with my head propped on my bent arm, I watch a hawk surf the cloudless blue sky while my friend eats […]
Spreading the Wealth Weeping Willow The Other Side of the Fence
1. I just got asked to a do a writing assignment via a Facebook Instant message. 2. So of course I asked the subject of the proposed interview in a Facebook Instant message if he want to meet me. 3. I named this week’s Thirteen Thursday for THIS video clip. 4. I recently read a […]
