In this storybook I’m the Matchbook Girl, on the outside looking in. I’m the girl who wants that pair of red shoes in the window but doesn’t have the money to buy them or the nerve to really wear them. I’m the girl who wants to come in from the cold, sit by the fire […]
~ More journeys on the Yellow Brick Road as traveled by “He Gets a Kick Out of Bricks” Josh Copus 3 kilns, 2 sheds, 1 studio, and a woodfire pizza oven (pictured) just for fun; that’s some of the latest structural inventory on my Asheville potter son Josh’s property in Madison County and doesn’t take […]
The Big Apple The Kitchen Help (video HERE) Rock Star Wanna Dance? (video HERE.)
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on December 10, 2009. Mankind is my business!” bellowed the Ghost of Jacob Marley, played by Emerson Perry during a Sunday evening performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Sun Hall. This classic tale of redemption and Christmas spirit, the latest Young Actors Co-op […]
1. They say that each year 100’s of words are dropped from the English language and that 90% of what we write is communicated using only 7,000 words. Keep a word from going extinct. Adopt one HERE. 2. Enjoy a virtual cup of tea and a tea leaf reading HERE. Don’t burn yourself. The tea […]
Who rings the bell of poetry and what makes me sing along?
The creeks are running and puddles are the growing. A few hours of sun brings a mush of slush. A December thaw is a good day for walking I love trees.
There’s nothing like a winter wonderland snowglobe to stir the spirit of the Christmas season, or to shake up weekend plans. Although our town’s Christmas parade, planned for today, was postponed till next week due to snow, some festive weekend events did herald in the holidays. Pictured here are some cast members from the Young […]
Josh lays down the money letters, J, K, Z, and Q, for a winning game plan. Mara moonlights, making dream catchers for her job at Seeds of Light, while waiting for the Scrabble business to pick up. Colleen doesn’t have an X to stand on, even so, she taunts Josh with the E’s he wished […]
1. New answering machine message: What’s your story, Morning Glory? 2. There’s more where that came from HERE. 3. Paradox: Why is an empty heart heavy and a full heart light? 4. While interviewing the owner of a new spa in Floyd, I discovered that cosmetology and cosmology are light years apart but I can’t […]
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on November 27, 2009 A’vie means ‘for life’ in French, says Ashleigh Ward, owner of the new “spa a’vie,” located downstairs in the Winter Sun building. The name reflects the sense of wellbeing that Ward hopes her spa services will impart to others. Born in D.C. […]
The moon left its thumbprint But pleads its innocence No stars have been stolen No alibi confirmed
