1. Best line heard this week, spoken by a farmer: “Yeah, I have a PHD. It’s called a post hole digger.” 2. Joe and I went out for a drive the other night to look at the full moon and take pictures, but I couldn’t find the black camera case in the dark car at […]
Moon hangs like a tack holding up the dark waiting to reveal heaven’s first act in a theater of late night drama ________________ ~ Colleen Redman
Fire Dancers from the Rhythm Fire Dance Company opened the show for 7 Walkers Thursday night below Dogtown’s Sun Hall in the Warren Lineberry Park. Led by teacher and Rhythm Fire Dance Company founder/director Ilima Ursomarso, the belly dancers, performed with fire cups, fire fans and fire sticks. Ilima danced with a fire hoop. […]
I practically had a conversation with Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. I mean I was that close and he smiled. And I never stopped smiling. Or dancing. In the spirit of Jerry Garcia and the rest of the “7 Walkers looking down from heaven” (taken from one of their new song’s lyrics), the band 7 […]
1. You know you’ve been on the computer too long when you find yourself pointing and clicking your mouse in an effort to knock off a cobweb that’s hanging from the monitor. 2. Watching a hummingbird check out a pink plastic ball in our yard yesterday reminded me of the time a goat tried to […]
They come to fill buckets and pans, canning jars, freezer bags, pie crusts, and always, the everwaiting tongue. They come to visit and eat, to sate the hungers of loneliness and body. Though we offer only blueberries, they come wanting more. They come from the American Dream—CEOs and wealthy realtors, two kids piling out of […]
________________ My husband has tools for digging potatoes but I like to use my hands _______________ Reaching down deep into the musty dark soil mounded up like swollen bellies _______________ I feel around for the curve of their bodies wiggle them loose like teeth __________________ Born into my hand without the sharp edge of a […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN1_vSNpea8 Bryce and Kaylee harvest potatoes for a bubble and squeak lunch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atQZOErQh_w Liam on the Loose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rIUWZDGsy8 He Floors Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUQeiH6pnew Houdini and the Camera Case
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on August 25, 2011 Kalinda Wycoff and Theresa Cook have been business partners for 20 years and friends for much longer than that. In 1991 Wycoff, Cook and their co-partner for 18 years, Christine Byrd, opened the New Mountain Mercantile. It was the first shop in […]
